KELLY v. UNITED STATES

No. 901.

73 A.2d 232 (1950)

KELLY v. UNITED STATES.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 4, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Laughlin, Washington, D. C., for appellant. William E. Owen, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant.

L. Clark Ewing, Assistant United States Attorney, Washington, D. C., with whom George Morris Fay, United States Attorney, Raymond Baker and Joseph M. Howard, Assistant United States Attorneys, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and CLAGETT, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted under an information charging that on a street in the District of Columbia he invited one Frank N. Manthos to accompany him for a lewd or immoral purpose. Code 1940, Supp. VII, § 22-2701. Of the five assigned errors we find possible merit in only one, consideration of which requires some statement of the factual background.

The trial, without a jury, commenced on a Friday afternoon and the prosecution completed...

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