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TURNER v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 1357.

98 A.2d 786 (1953)

TURNER v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided August 6, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chauncey D. Artis, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

C. Belden White, II, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel, and Chester H. Gray, Principal Assistant Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellee.

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

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury on two counts of keeping for sale and selling alcoholic beverages without a license in violation of D.C.Code 1951, § 25-109.

While several errors are alleged, we reach only one: the failure of the trial judge to promptly instruct the jury to disregard an improper remark by the prosecuting attorney and the failure to cure the prejudice created by this remark in his instructions to the jury. The...

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