Mandate from the United States Supreme Court, Page 1
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United States of [label pasted here]: ON MANDATE FROM UNITED
STATES SUREME COURT
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1963
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[IMPRINTED SEAL]: SEAL OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
[handwritten note]: for Judgment on Mandate
[illegible initials]
To the Honorable the Judges of
the Supreme Court of the State [stamped over last four words]: FILED
of Florida,
[stamp continued]: APR 15 1963
GUYTE P. McCORD
CLERK SUPREME COURT
BY [illegible signature]
DEPUTY CLERK
GREETINGS;
WHEREAS, lately in the Supreme Court of the State of Florida,
there came before you a cause between Clarence Earl Gideon, petitioner,
and H. G. Cochran, Jr., Director, Division of Corrections, respondent,
wherein the judgment of the said Supreme Court was duly entered on
the 30th day of October A. D. 1961, as appears by an inspection of
the transcript of the record of the said Supreme Court which was
brought into the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES by virtue of a
writ of certiorari as provided by act of Congress.
AND WHEREAS, Louie L. Wainwright was substituted in the place
of H. G. Cochran, Jr., pursuant to Rule 48 (3) as amended.
AND WHEREAS, in the October Term, 1962, the said cause came
on to be heard before the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES on the
said transcript of record, and was argued by counsel:
ON CONISDERATION WHEREOF, it was ordered and adjudged on March
18, 1963, by this Court that the judgment of the said Supreme Court
in this cause be reversed with costs, and that this cause be remanded
to the Supreme Court of the State of the Florida for further proceedings
not inconsistent with the opinion of this Court.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CAUSE IS REMANDED to you in order that such
