BROWN v. UNITED STATES

No. 5012.

261 A.2d 834 (1970)

Maurice BROWN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 6, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Shine for appellant.

Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., with whom James E. Sharp, Robert Ackerman, and William S. Block, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


KERN, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from a conviction for receiving stolen property, D.C.Code 1967, § 22-2205.1 We are called upon to determine whether the trial court correctly denied appellant's motion to suppress a shopping bag2 which he had dropped on the street prior to his arrest and whether the trial court's instructions to the jury concerning the...

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