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CLARKE v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 2094, 2095.

140 A.2d 181 (1958)

Conway Ellis CLARKE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided April 7, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph V. Gartlan, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Louis M. Kaplan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Lewis Carroll and Walter J. Bonner, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant was charged in two informations with two violations of Code 1951, § 22-1410, the "worthless" check statute.1 A jury convicted him of each offense, and this appeal followed.

The evidence on behalf of the government disclosed that in November 1956 appellant offered to purchase a grocery business owned by the complaining witness. An agreement was reached...

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