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WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

No. 2260.

145 A.2d 455 (1958)

Bernard R. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided October 28, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex K. Nelson, Washington, D. C., with whom Eugene X. Murphy, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Jerome A. Cohen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., 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).

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of simple assault upon a nine-year-old girl. Although three errors are claimed, we reach only one, namely, the admission of hearsay testimony.

The offense allegedly occurred in an alley in the rear of the 2700 block of Eleventh Street. During trial the following colloquy took place when the arresting officer was being interrogated by appellant's counsel on rebuttal:

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