The Sixth Amendment secures to the accused a speedy as well as a public trial.

This provision has received very little discussion in the federal courts, and, so far as the author is aware, no case in which its violation has been asserted has reached the Supreme Court.

38 146 U. S. 370; 13 Sup. Ct. Rep. 136; 36 L. ed. 1011.

39 Justices Brewer and Brown dissenting.

40 As to the waiver by the accused of his right to plead autrefois acquit, by taking an appeal to a superior court, see p. 816, section entitled "Double Jeopardy."

41 190 U. S. 107; 23 Sup. Ct Rep. 787; 47 L. ed. 1016.

42 To this doctrine Justice Harlan vigorously dissented, the reasoning of whose opinion it is not easy to answer.