Case Name: Douglas v. Alabama
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1964-10-12
Citations: 379 U.S. 815
Docket Number: No. 313
Parties: Douglas v. Alabama.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 379
Pages: 815–815

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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?"