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SMITH v. UNITED STATES

No. 4949.

256 A.2d 901 (1969)

William O. SMITH, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 3, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Hall, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Donald T. Bucklin, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., Roger E. Zuckerman and Gene S. Anderson, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FICKLING, KERN and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted of attempted petit larceny after a trial by jury and sentenced to nine months imprisonment. He attacks his conviction on the ground, among others, that the trial court erred under Luck v. United States, 121 U.S.App.D.C. 151, 348 F.2d 763 (1965) in admitting into evidence for impeachment purposes his three prior petit larceny convictions.

The case turned wholly on the credibility...

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