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SMITH v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 4505, 4506.

247 A.2d 293 (1968)

Stacy SMITH and Walter R. Jeffries, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Walter R. JEFFRIES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 12, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin M. Burton, Jr., Washington, D. C., appointed by this court for appellants.

David G. Bress, U.S. Atty., with whom Frank Q. Nebeker, William G. Reynolds, and David C. Woll, 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 by jury, appellants Jeffries and Smith were each convicted of petit larceny.1 Jeffries was also found guilty of destroying private property.2 Both contend that their arrests were unlawful and that evidence, seized as the result of an allegedly illegal search, was erroneously admitted at trial.

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