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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 313.
    Douglas v. Alabama.
    
      Bryan A. Chancey, Robert S. Gordon and Charles Cleveland for petitioner. Richmond M. Flowers, Attorney General of Alabama, and Paul T. Gish, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
   Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Alabama' granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition which reads as follows:

“1. Is the defendant in a criminal trial deprived of due process of law when the prosecutor knowingly calls an alleged accomplice to the stand to secure from him a refusal to testify and when his presence on the stand is used as a pretense for reading to the jury an alleged confession of the witness which is inadmissible against the defendant?”