UNITED STATES v. VAUGHN

No. 4867.

255 A.2d 483 (1969)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Morris W. VAUGHN, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald T. Bucklin, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Henry F. Greene, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellant.

No appearance for appellee.

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


FICKLING, Associate Judge:

The Grand Jury ignored an attempted robbery charge involving the appellee. Thirty-seven days later, informations were filed against appellee charging him with attempted petit larceny and assault arising out of the attempted robbery charge. During this lapse of time, appellee was incarcerated under an indictment for an unrelated robbery charge.

An order dismissing the informations was entered when the prosecutor could not explain...

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