Andersen v. Treat

Andersen v. Treat, 172 U.S. 24 (1898), was a United States Supreme Court case in which John Andersen was convicted of the murder of William Wallace Sanders, who was his mate on the ship Olive Pecket. Andersen was found guilty and sentenced to death, but petitioned the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia for a writ of habeas corpus, under the claim that he had been deprived of his right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Chief Justice Fuller delivered the opinion of the Court affirming the order of the lower court.

Andersen v. Treat
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 8, 1898 Decided November 14, 1898
Full case name	John Andersen v. Treat
Citations	172 U.S. 24 (more) 19 S. Ct. 67; 43 L. Ed. 351; 1898 U.S. LEXIS 1638
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia
Court membership
Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · Horace Gray David J. Brewer · Henry B. Brown George Shiras Jr. · Edward D. White Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna
Case opinion
Majority	Fuller, joined by unanimous

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 172

External links

• Text of Andersen v. Treat, 172 U.S. 24 (1898) is available from: Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress