ISAAC v. UNITED STATES

No. 15081.

284 F.2d 168 (1960)

Grover Lee ISAAC, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 21, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Myron G. Ehrlich, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court), for appellant.

Mr. Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Mr. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, Chief Judge, and BAZELON and BURGER, Circuit Judges.


PRETTYMAN, Chief Judge.

Appellant Isaac was indicted, tried by a jury, and convicted of first-degree murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and assault with intent to kill. It was an extraordinarily atrocious crime. He had been associating intimately for some years with a woman to whom he was not ceremonially married. She had two small sons, aged four and six, not his children. Isaac and the woman quarreled. He took the...

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