SWANN v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2397.

152 A.2d 200 (1959)

Howard William SWANN, Jr., Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Harlan, 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., on the brief, for appellee.

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


HOOD, Associate Judge.

On March 23, 1955, a petition was filed in the Juvenile Court alleging that appellant, then fifteen years of age, had yoked another and had taken from him a wallet containing 53 cents and some personal papers. On April 6, 1955, appellant appeared in court with his parents and foster mother and acknowledged the allegation. He was then committed to the National Training School for Boys until 21 years of age.

In December 1958 appellant...

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