Robert L. Steele v. Terry D. Taylor, Supt., Owen J. Kilbane v. Ronald C. Marshall, Supt., Martin A. Kilbane v. Ronald C. Marshall, Supt.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this state habeas corpus, murder case from Ohio, a jury convicted a Cleveland municipal court judge and two other petitioners of hiring another to assassinate the judge’s wife. The two principal constitutional questions on appeal arise under the confrontation clause of the sixth amendment1 and the self-incrimination clause of the fifth amendment2 which were made applicable to the states through the fourteenth amendment in Pointer v. Texas, 380 *1197U.S. 400, 85 S.Ct. 1065, 13 L.Ed.2d 923 (1965), and Malloy v. Hogan, 378 U.S. 1, 84 S.Ct. 1489, 12 L.Ed.2d 653 (1964). The…