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BEVELY v. UNITED STATES

No. 1911.

129 A.2d 695 (1957)

Benjamin BEVELY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 4, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Spriggs, Jr., Washington, D. C., (appointed by this court), for appellant.

Richard J. Snider, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Lewis Carroll and William A. Dougherty, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

QUINN, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of petit larceny. The property involved was a crate of chickens, packed in crushed ice, which disappeared from a truck while the driver was making deliveries. There was evidence that the driver discovered the crate missing, noticed a trail of water leading away from the truck to a house nearby, and notified the police. The police followed the trail into a rundown rooming house, known to them to be "wide-open...

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