The accused were Dragoljub-Draza Mihailovic, Dr. Stevan Moljevic Dr. Mladen Zujovic, Dr. Zivko Topalovic, Djuro Vilovic, Radoslav-Rade Radic, Slavoljub Vranjesevic, Milos Glisic, Slobodan Jovanovic, Bozidar Puric, Dr. Momcilo Nincic, Petar Zivkovic, Radoje Knezevic, Dr. Milan Gavrilovic, Zivan Knezevic, Konstantin Fotic, Dragomir-Dragi Jovanovic, Tanasije-Tasa Dinic, Velibor Jonic, Djura Dokic, Kosta Musicki, Bosko Pavlovic, Dr. Lazar-Laza Markovic and Dr. Kosta Kumanudi.

The following were tried in their absence: Slobodan Jovanovic and Bozidar Puric, premiers of the emigrant government, Petar Zivkovic, Dr. Momcilo Nincic and Dr. Milan Gavrilovic, ministers of the emigrant government, Radoje Knezevic, minister of the court in emigration, Konstantin Fotic ambassador of the emigrant government to the USA, Major Zivan Knezevic, director of the military chancellery of the presidium of the emigrant government, Dr. Zivko Topalovic and Dr. Mladen Zujovic, political leaders of the Ravna Gora Cetnik organization, who had fled abroad.

All the accused were represented by counsel, as follows:

  Dragoljub-Draza Mihailovic, by the barristers Nikola Djonovic and Dragic Joksimovic;
  Djuro Vilovic, by Dr. Milan Omcikus, barrister;
  Dragoljub-Dragi Jovanovic, by Slavko Dukanac, barrister;
  Tanasije Dinic, by Dr. Bogoljub Jovanovic, barrister;
  Velibor Jonic, by Milan Zivadinovic, barrister;
  Djuro Dokic, by Dragoljub Joksimiovic, barrister;
  Dr. Lazar Markovic, by Aleksandar NikoJic, barrister;
  Dr. Kosta Kumanudi, by Dr. Friedrich Pops, barrister, all of which were chosen by the accused themselves.

The other accused were defended by counsel chosen by the Court: Radoslav Radic, by Lazar Vucetic, barrister; Slavoljub Vranjesevic and Milos Glisic, by Blazo Radovic, barrister; Kosta Musicki, by Djordje Ciric, barrister; Bosko Pavlovic, Radoje Knezevic, and Dr. Milan Gavrilovic by Slobodan Subotic, barrister; Dr. Mladen Zujovic and Dr. Zivko Topalovic, by Nikola Radovanovic, barrister, Slobodan Jovanovic, by Milos Terzic, barrister; Bozidar Puric and Petar Zivkovic, by Pavle Miljakovic, barrister; Dr Momcilo Nincic, by David Alkalaj, barrister, and Zivan Knezevic and Konstantin Fotic, by Dragutin Tasic, barrister.

The trial of the traitors and war criminals in Tolpcider was attended by more then 100 journalists of whom about 60 were from abroad, representatives of all big world papers and agencies. Special correspondents were sent by the agencies TASS, CTK, P AP , Reuter, Associated Press, Agence France Presse, United Press, Overseas News Agency, International News Service, the Jewish News Agency, Tele Press, the Albanian Telegraph Agency and ,the newspapers: Pravda Izvestia, London Times, Daily Worker, New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, News Chronicle, Daily Express and others. In order to facilitate speedy communication for the foreign journalists, who had come from the USSR, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the United States of America, Great Britain, France, China, Hungary, Roumania, Denmark and other countries, a special office for telegraph and telephone service was established at Topcider .

The entire proceedings of the trial were translated into Russian, French and English, so that the foreign correspondents were enabled to follow directly every word of the Court and the accused. In this way the correspondents were able to send to their agencies and editors their reports’ on statements and facts, which had been heard in Court a few minutes previously. Special correspondents of the papers of all the People’s Republics of Yugoslavia were also present. The Belgrade Radio Station transmitted the whole course of the proceedings, so that the entire country and the world public could listen to every word pronounced at this stupendous trial. Many hundreds of thousands of persons throughout Yugoslavia listened with the greatest attention to the transmission of the Topcider trial, in workshops, institutions, houses and squares, in all towns and villages.