FORTE v. UNITED STATES

No. 6449.

83 F.2d 612 (1936)

FORTE v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided April 6, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Ford and Milton Kaplan, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Leslie C. Garnett and Roger Robb, both of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and VAN ORSDEL, GRONER, and STEPHENS, Associate Justices.


VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

The appellant Forte, together with three others, was convicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia of the sale and possession of lottery tickets in violation of section 863 of the District of Columbia Code 1901, as amended, 32 Stat. 535 (D.C.Code 1929, T. 6, § 151). He alone appeals.

It appears from the evidence that on November 30, 1934, about noon, one Melvin M. Kite, a police officer attached to the gambling...

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