Case: Marshall v. United States
Abbreviation: Marshall v. United States
Decision Date: 1958-11-17
Docket Number: No. 383
Citation: 358 U.S. 892
Volume: 358
Reporter: United States Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Marshall v. United States.
Judges: 
Pages: 892–892

Head Matter:
No. 383.
Marshall v. United States.
Omer Griffin for petitioner. Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Anderson and Beatrice Rosenberg for the United States.

Opinion:
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit granted limited to the first question presented by the petition for the writ which reads as follows:
"Whether a defendant in a criminal trial to a jury is denied a fair trial when members of the jury during the course of the trial read newspaper articles which state that the defendant has a record of two previous felony convictions and recite other defamatory matter."