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GUEST v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2700.

168 A.2d 533 (1961)

Clarice A. GUEST, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 22, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

John R. Hess, 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).

CAYTON, Judge.

After pleading guilty to a charge of vagrancy and receiving a sentence of ninety days plus a $250 fine, appellant moved to withdraw her plea of guilty. In the motion she charged that a police officer had induced her not to secure an attorney or bondsman and to plead guilty, and had promised if she did so her lengthy record would not be brought to the attention of the court and she would receive only a small fine.

At the hearing on the motion...

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