WAJER v. UNITED STATES

No. 3920.

222 A.2d 68 (1966)

Hilda Marie WAJER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 19, 1966.

Rehearing Denied September 7, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Josiah Lyman, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Robert Kenly Webster, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


MYERS, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the charge of soliciting for purposes of prostitution in violation of D.C.Code, 1961, § 22-2701, and given a sentence of thirty days. She appeals. Inter alia, she contends that it was error not to have acquitted her at the conclusion of all testimony as a matter of law and that the trial court should have found she was entrapped by the arresting officer.

The officer testified at trial that he saw...

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