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WILLIAMS V. OKLAHOMA CITY, 395 U. S. 458 (1969)

395 U. S. 458

U.S. Supreme Court

Williams v. Oklahoma City, 395 U.S. 458 (1969)

Williams v. Oklahoma City

No. 841

Argued April 1-2, 1969

Decided June 9, 1969

395 U.S. 458

Syllabus

The denial to petitioner, an indigent who was convicted of drunken driving, of a copy at public expense of the trial transcript which he needed to perfect an appeal, to which he was entitled "as a matter of right" under Oklahoma law, is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

439 P.2d 965, reversed and remanded.


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