TATUM v. UNITED STATES

No. 7518.

110 F.2d 555 (1940)

TATUM v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 26, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert I. Miller and Joseph A. McMenamin, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

David A. Pine, U. S. Atty., and John W. Jackson, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, EDGERTON, and RUTLEDGE, Associate Justices.


EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

Appellant Carrie E. Tatum was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon, on an indictment charging that she "did make an assault in and upon one Dorothy M. Ragland, and her * * * did maim and disfigure, and that the said Carrie E. Tatum, in making the assault aforesaid, did cast and throw on and upon the said Dorothy M. Ragland, a certain corrosive liquid compound commonly * * * called lye." The Code of the District provides that "every...

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