Holloway v. State

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

Winston Holloway was tried with two co-defendants and convicted of several offenses in connection with the robbery of the Leather Bottle Restaurant in Little Rock. We affirmed their convictions but our judgment was reversed by the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that since one lawyer had represented’all three defendants, a conflict of interest preventing a fair trial existed. Holloway v. State, 260 Ark. 250, 539 S.W. 2d 435 (1976); rev’d, 435 U.S. 475, 98 S. Ct. 1173, 55 L.Ed. 2d 426 (1978).

Holloway, in a separate retrial in the Pulaski County Circuit Court,…