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HENDERSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 1691.

117 A.2d 456 (1955)

Alleyne HENDERSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided October 27, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlisle E. Pratt, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John W. Kern, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., Lewis Carroll and Harry T. Alexander, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

We are again called on to review a conviction on a charge of assault, where a defendant in the expression of a homosexual overture touched the genitalia of a police officer.1

The incident took place in a smoking room adjoining the men's room in the basement of a theatre. The arresting officer testified that he passed the defendant in the smoking room and the defendant stood in the doorway between the smoking...

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