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WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

No. 4419.

237 A.2d 539 (1968)

Melvin L. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 19, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noel H. Thompson, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

A. Lee Fentress, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U.S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and James E. Kelley, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

KELLY, Associate Judge:

This appeal is from a conviction by a jury of carrying a pistol without a license.1 Of the numerous errors alleged, appellant would have us consider those not raised below as plain error.

The testimony is that on the night of October 22, 1966, a police officer, while standing on the corner of Fourteenth and Clifton Streets, N.W., heard several gun shots. He looked in the direction from which the shots had...

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