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FERGUSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 1768.

123 A.2d 615 (1956)

George FERGUSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 27, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis P. Mitchell, Washington, D. C., with whom John A. Shorter, Jr., and William A. Smith, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

E. Tillman Stirling, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Lewis Carroll and George Donegan, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges; and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code, § 11-776(b).

CAYTON, Acting Judge.

Appeal from a conviction of possessing lottery slips. D.C.Code, § 22-1502.

Defendant was found in a "numbers drop" where he was arrested and searched. In his possession was a small pad of paper, on four pages of which certain numbers and symbols had been written. At trial defendant stipulated that the arresting officer might testify as an expert, and he said it was his opinion that the numerals on the pad indicated that defendant...

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