Case ID: so2d_630/html/0141-01.html
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Author: {"author": "HOUSTON, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Mary Louise DOZIER. (In re Mary Louise Dozier v. State of Alabama).
    1921920.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Dec. 3, 1993.
    W. Terry Bullard, Dothan, for petitioner.
    James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., for respondent.
   HOUSTON, Justice.

Though the state failed to exercise due diligence in securing a witness’s attendance at trial, we must agree "with the Court of Criminal Appeals that the error was “harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.” Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 24, 87 S.Ct. 824, 828, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967).

WRIT DENIED.

HORNSBY, C.J., and ALMON, KENNEDY and COOK, JJ., concur.