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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.