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CAREY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 1423.

102 A.2d 314 (1954)

CAREY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 22, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Octave Bigoness, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel, Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Harry L. Walker, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Only one question is presented by this appeal: whether peeping in the window of an occupied, lighted apartment at 1:30 in the morning constitutes disorderly conduct within the meaning of the statute.1

The pertinent provisions of the Law Enforcement Act are as follows:

"Sec. 211. (a) Whoever, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or under circumstances...

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