JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 2261.

146 A.2d 573 (1958)

Thomas W. JOHNSON and Robert L. Johnson, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided December 12, 1958.

Rehearing Denied January 6, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Bonner, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Edward C. O'Connell, 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 ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellants, who are brothers, engaged in a fight with the complaining witness in the front yard of the latter's home. As a result complaining witness suffered a broken nose, lost one tooth and had two other teeth chipped. Appellants were charged with and convicted of assault.1 On this appeal they assign two errors.

The first assignment charges error in the refusal of the trial court to permit the complaining...

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