DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. PRATHER

No. 3622.

207 A.2d 119 (1965)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Richard PRATHER, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 19, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair and David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, for appellant.

Arthur W. Jackson, Washington, D. C., entered an appearance for appellee but filed no brief.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.


QUINN, Associate Judge.

By information filed in the Juvenile Court, appellee was charged with being the father of a child born out of wedlock on July 18, 1961. At the conclusion of the government's case the court, sitting without a jury, granted appellee's motion to dismiss the complaint. This appeal followed.

The evidence, viewed in a light most favorable to the government, showing that in April 1960 the complaining witness signed papers committing her husband...

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