WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 4803, 4804.

254 A.2d 722 (1969)

Tyrone WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Benjamin L. SHORT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Francis Pohlhaus for appellant Tyrone Williams.

Warwick R. Furr, II, for appellant Benjamin L. Short.

James A. Treanor, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Oliver A. Houck, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


FICKLING, Associate Judge:

Appellants appeal from their convictions for petit larceny, D.C.Code, § 22-2202.

On April 7, 1968, Officer McDonald observed a car in a parking lot, some 20 feet from a burned out 7-11 store. Appellant Williams was observed putting something in the car's trunk which, upon investigation, turned out to be bottles of beer and wine. Two men were sitting on the back seat of the car where more bottles of beer and wine were found....

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