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PATLER v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2743.

171 A.2d 508 (1961)

John PATLER, alias John Patsalos, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 12, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Patler, pro se.

H. Thomas Sisk, 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.

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

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of defacing the doors of an elevator in a private building. The information charged that appellant "did then and there wilfully and wantonly write, mark and draw a sign or figure thereon without the consent of the owner or proprietor thereof, contrary to and in violation of Section 22-3112, District of Columbia Code." The evidence offered by the prosecution was circumstantial.

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