SINGLETON v. UNITED STATES

No. 4027.

225 A.2d 315 (1967)

Earl C. SINGLETON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurens H. Silver, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Theodore Wieseman, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker and Geoffrey M. Alprin, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


QUINN, Associate Judge:

Appellant entered a local department store, walked behind the counter of the men's hat department, bent down, and then stood up and looked at several caps. After looking around for a few minutes, he left the store with his right hand in his coat pocket. A special policeman, observing all of these actions, followed appellant outside and saw him enter a dime store. As appellant came out of the dime store, he took a plaid cap from underneath his...

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