CAYTON, Acting Judge.
Appellant was convicted of stealing currency from the locked brief case of an occupant of a rooming house where she was working as a maid.
On this appeal our initial question is one of jurisdiction. Appellant says that because the amount of the theft was shown to be $200 the government had no right to prosecute her under our petit larceny statute, Code 1951, Supp. III, § 22-2202, which covers thefts of "any property of value of less...
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