SCOTT v. UNITED STATES

No. 2302.

147 A.2d 767 (1959)

Robert C. SCOTT, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 19, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John McDaniel, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Carl W. Belcher and Jerome A. Cohen, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


HOOD, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of petit larceny. The only error claimed is admission in evidence of appellant's confession. The claim is that the confession was illegally admitted because obtained while appellant was being held under an unlawful arrest. The claim of unlawful arrest is based on the fact that the arrest was without a warrant.

The evidence of the complaining witness justified a finding that on February 24, 1958, appellant...

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