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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. ROBINSON

No. 3647.

208 A.2d 95 (1965)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Martha ROBINSON, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 11, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant.

William J. Garber, Washington, D. C., with whom Meredith C. Coffman, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, MYERS, Associate Judge, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired).

CAYTON, Judge.

The District of Columbia appeals from an order of the trial court refusing a short continuance in a vagrancy case and ordering a dismissal thereof "for want of prosecution with prejudice."

When the case was first called for trial early in August, 1964, defendant was granted a continuance of eighteen days. Then, defendant asked and received another continuance of three days. At the end of that time defendant was still not ready to proceed and...

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