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YELDELL v. UNITED STATES

No. 2393.

153 A.2d 637 (1959)

Robert L. YELDELL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided August 6, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce R. Harrison, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

William J. Cooney, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

QUINN, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for simple assault.1 The sole error discussed in appellant's brief is the refusal of the trial judge to declare a mistrial when the arresting officer made reference on two occasions to appellant's "parole officer." The circumstances surrounding the alleged error were as follows:

On cross-examination, defendant's counsel asked...

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