RIDDICK v. UNITED STATES

No. 17757.

326 F.2d 650 (1963)

Cecil R. RIDDICK, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 21, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John D. Matthews, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Daniel M. Redmond, Washington, D. C. (both appointed by this court) was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Gerald A. Messerman, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Joseph A. Lowther, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and WILBUR K. MILLER and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.


McGOWAN, Circuit Judge.

Reversal of a conviction for robbery is sought on this appeal because of alleged error in the admission into evidence of certain statements by appellant at the time he was arrested in the midst of the events constituting the crime. We have concluded to affirm.

The complaining witness, a young woman, was walking home through Grant Circle late at night. She testified that appellant and another man approached her; that the latter seized...

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