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RICKS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 4163-4165.

228 A.2d 316 (1967)

Hattie Mae RICKS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Joseph N. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Hattie Mae RICKS, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 6, 1967.

As Modified April 25, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monroe H. Freedman and Sol Rosen, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Theodore Wieseman, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Earl J. Silbert, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee in Nos. 4163 and 4164.

Ted D. Kuemmerling, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Charles T. Duncan, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee in No. 4165. Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, entered an appearance for appellee.

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

CAYTON, Judge.

Appellants were convicted under "The Narcotic Vagrancy Statute," D.C.Code 1961, § 33-416a which provides, inter alia:

(a) The purpose of this section is to protect the public health, welfare, and safety of the people of the District of Columbia by providing safeguards for the people against harmful contact with narcotic drug users who are vagrants within the meaning of this section and to establish, in addition (to another Act)...

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