United States v. John H. Haley

John H. Haley appeals his conviction for attempted escape, 18 U.S.C. § 751(a), and assault on a correctional officer, D.C. Code Ann. § 22-505 (1967). The evidence disclosed that while Haley was imprisoned at the District of Columbia Workhouse at Occoquan, Virginia, he choked and threatened a guard, jumped out of a window of his cellblock, and was apprehended while putting on some overalls at a nearby house on the grounds of the institution.

Haley contends that he is not guilty because he had been improperly convicted of attempted burglary in the Court of General Sessions of the District of…