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LOVE v. UNITED STATES

No. 2092.

138 A.2d 666 (1958)

Alfred V. LOVE and John R. Murphy, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 13, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Phillip Fogel, Washington, D. C., with whom Jules H. Stopak, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Louis M. Kaplan, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Lewis Carroll, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellants were convicted by a jury of obtaining by false pretenses several cases of beer from a local liquor dealer.1 They ask this court to reverse their convictions upon two main grounds.

First, appellants contend that the trial judge's instructions to the jury on presumption of innocence and reasonable doubt were inadequate. We have examined the instructions and find that the law governing the jury's...

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