Hamilton v. Alabama
| Decision Date | 30 March 1964 |
| Docket Number | No. 793,793 |
| Citation | 11 L.Ed.2d 979,376 U.S. 650,84 S.Ct. 982 |
| Parties | Mary HAMILTON v. ALABAMA |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III and Oscar W. Adams, Jr., for petitioner.
Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, and Bernard F. Sykes and Owen Bridges, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.
PER CRIAM.
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama.
The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is reversed. Johnson v. Virginia, 373 U.S. 61, 83 S.Ct. 1053, 10 L.Ed.2d 195.
Mr. Justice BLACK concurs in rever al of the judgment of contempt for reasons discussed in In re Murchison, 349 U.S. 133, 75 S.Ct. 623, 99 L.Ed. 942; In re Oliver, 333 U.S. 257, 68 S.Ct. 499, 92 L.Ed. 682, and Thompson v. City of Louisville, 362 U.S. 199, 80 S.Ct. 624, 4 L.Ed.2d 654. Cf. Offutt v. United States, 348 U.S. 11, 75 S.Ct. 11, 99 L.Ed. 11.
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