WATKINS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 4477, 4478.

240 A.2d 656 (1968)

William WATKINS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 16, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Speidel, 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 Lawrence Lippe, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


KELLY, Associate Judge:

These appeals pose the question of whether it was prejudicial error to assign a single counsel to represent both appellant and a co-defendant, one Alvin Gibson, at trial.

Appellant and Gibson, who is not a party to the appeals, were convicted by a jury of petit larceny and assault. The Government's evidence, presented through the testimony of the complaining witness and two eyewitnesses, was essentially that defendants attacked the...

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