Philpot v. State

In conference this court divided over (a) the admissibility of a confession given by the defendant while in custody in a back room at the station, and (b) the trial court’s refusal of a continuance because the Alabama statutes exclude all women from serving as jurors.

We certified to the Supreme Court of Alabama the questions and were given the answers which appear in the statement of the case along with the pertinent facts of the case.

The confession here received was not within the influence of Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S.Ct. 1758, 12 L. Ed.2d 977, so as to require a reversal on…