STEWART v. UNITED STATES

No. 7270.

104 F.2d 234 (1939)

STEWART v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 20, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Irelan, Jr., Donald S. Caruthers, and Edison W. Mollohan, Jr., all of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

David A. Pine, U. S. Atty., and Charles B. Murray, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Washington, D. C.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and STEPHENS and MILLER, Associate Justices.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant was indicted for the offense of robbery in the District of Columbia, was tried, convicted, and sentenced. He appeals and assigns as error the action of the trial court in overruling his objection to the question asked of his character witness — if she knew that the defendant had been arrested for investigation in 1936 and in 1937.

In the instant case the question was proper, for the reason that the accused himself had previously...

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