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