United States Ex Rel. Arthur Holliday and Albert C. Daniels v. Frederick E. Adams, Warden, Connecticut State Prison

Appellants Holliday and Daniels were charged, tried and convicted in April 1968 after a joint jury trial in the Superior Court, Hartford County, of the crimes of assault with intent to kill and of being an accessory to that crime, respectively. The Supreme Court of Connecticut affirmed both convictions on February 4, 1970. State v. Holliday and State v. Daniels, 159 Conn. 169, 268 A.2d 368 (1970).

The sole claim raised and rejected on appellants’ appeal to the Supreme Court of Connecticut was the correctness of the evidentiary ruling by the state trial court in admitting, over appellants’…