WILLIAMS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Nos. 2676-2678.

167 A.2d 893 (1961)

Grace WILLIAMS and Sarah Stokes, Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee. Grace WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee. Sarah S. STOKES, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 24, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis P. Mitchell, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Ted D. Kuemmerling, 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., were on the brief, for appellee. H. Thomas Sisk, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).


CAYTON, Acting Judge.

Defendants were charged with keeping for sale and selling alcoholic beverages without a license. Code 1951, § 25-109(a) (Supp. VIII). Trial resulted in their conviction and they appeal.

The Government started its investigation at 1:30 on the morning of June 21, 1959, when a plain-clothes policeman and policewoman of the Metropolitan Police Department were admitted and served alcoholic beverages in an "after-hours" club located in...

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