KILLIAN v. U.S.

No. 141.

365 U.S. 810 (1961)

KILLIAN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 20, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Michael Essin and Basil R. Pollitt for petitioner. Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Yeagley and George B. Searls for the United States.


Certiorari granted, limited to Questions 3 and 6 presented by the petition, which read as follows:

"3. Whether instructions to the jury properly defined membership in and affiliation to the Communist Party.

"6. Whether the production of statements which report payments to those witnesses, as informers, is excused after a complete foundation for their production under 18 U.S. Code § 3500 is laid, when all that the government has offered to produce at trial...

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