JOHNSON v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2071.

137 A.2d 567 (1958)

Opal JOHNSON, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 14, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alton S. Bradford, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

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

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


HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating a traffic regulation requiring that: "An operator shall, when operating a vehicle, give his full time and attention to the operation of the same."1 The substance of this appeal is that the evidence did not justify a finding of guilt.

Appellant drove her automobile into an uncontrolled street intersection and it was struck by an automobile approaching on her left. The evidence...

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