DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. TURNER

No. 2403.

154 A.2d 925 (1959)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Marcellus Augustus TURNER, Jr., Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided October 21, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, Hubert B. Pair and Ted D. Kuemmerling, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

No appearance for appellee.

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


QUINN, Associate Judge.

An information filed in the Juvenile Court charged appellee with being the father of a child born to the complaint, an unmarried woman. Trial was by the court and at the close of the government's case appellee moved for a "judgment of acquittal." The grounds for this motion were: (1) The complainant's testimony as to sexual relations was not corroborated, and (2) the government called a witness essential to its case who did not appear. The...

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