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PAYNE v. UNITED STATES

No. 2756.

171 A.2d 509 (1961)

Mary A. PAYNE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 12, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Domenic Tesauro, Washington, D. C., with whom J. Leon Williams, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., 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.

The trial court, sitting without a jury, convicted appellant under an information charging her with maintaining a disorderly house from October 1959 to October 1960. Code 1951, § 22-2722. She appeals denying that the activity complained of established the offense alleged.

This conviction partially rested on government testimony disclosing that appellant had purchased stolen meat from one Turner Harris on numerous occasions beginning...

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