HILLIARD v. UNITED STATES

No. 17109.

317 F.2d 150 (1963)

Benjamin A. HILLIARD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John A. Shorter, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Barry I. Fredericks, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, DANAHER and BURGER, Circuit Judges.


DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

Hilliard was convicted of robbery after a trial in which the matter of identification became critical. It developed that one of the Government's chief witnesses had furnished to the police a description of the robber. She testified on cross examination that she had told the investigating police "exactly" what she had said in court. She said that she had given the officers a statement.

A detective testified that the chief complaining...

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