McRAE v. UNITED STATES

No. 4116.

222 A.2d 848 (1966)

John W. McRAE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 3, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl G. Feissner, Washington, D. C., (appointed by this court), for appellant.

Scott R. Schoenfeld, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U.S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Arthur L. Burnett, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


CAYTON, Judge.

On this appeal from a conviction of petit larceny (D.C.Code, § 22-2202) appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. He urges that for failure to prove a prima facie case he was entitled to a judgment of acquittal at the close of the Government's case; also that the trial court erred in allowing defense evidence to bolster or complete "an otherwise imperfect case."

A detective testified that in a local department store he saw appellant...

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