DURPHY v. UNITED STATES

No. 4340.

235 A.2d 326 (1967)

Samuel A. DURPHY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 27, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob Sheeskin, Washington, D. C. (appointed by the Court), for appellant.

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

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


MYERS, Associate Judge:

After trial without jury, appellant was convicted of petit larceny. D.C.Code § 22-2202 (1961 ed.). Although he alleges several errors, we have addressed ourselves only to the contention that the evidence was insufficient to support a verdict of guilty.

At trial, the Government presented evidence that appellant, his wife and their baby were in a self-service food market. A meat cutter, watching through a one-way mirror, observed...

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