HUFFMAN v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 1924.

133 A.2d 114 (1957)

John Leonard HUFFMAN, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 13, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Mayer, Washington, D. C., with whom Lewis H. Shapiro, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Chester H. Gray, Corporation Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


ROVER, Chief Judge.

Appellant was charged in the Juvenile Court with being the father of a child born out of wedlock (Code 1951, Supp. V, § 11-951 et seq.).

He appeared in court on October 2, 1956, in response to a summons. The clerk read the information to him and when he was asked if he wanted a lawyer he replied: "I will answer for myself." He then signed a printed waiver of counsel and when asked how he pleaded he replied: "Guilty." The court thereupon...

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