 Adams was prosecuted for the murder of Edith Alice Morrell and found not guilty in 1957.Although the Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, had filed a second indictment in the case of Mrs Hullett, contrary to the normal rule in 1957 that only a single murder indictment should be filed, 

Adams was never tried for this but, at the committal hearing, Melford Stevenson, who led the crown's case there, put the case that Adams either administered a fatal dose of barbiturates to Mrs Hullett or gave her a fatal dose to take herself, which was murder.He had made the explicit claim that Adam's instructions to specially clear Mrs Hullett's cheque two days before her death showed that he knew she would be die very soon; as Mrs Morrell was wealthy and Adams had ample cash in his bank accounts, there was no other reason for his wanting special clearing.