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PIGFORD v. UNITED STATES

No. 5379.

273 A.2d 837 (1971)

George Lemuel PIGFORD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 26, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter R. Kolker, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John E. Rogers, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Charles H. Roistacher, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

KELLY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was tried and convicted by a court sitting without a jury of two counts of receiving stolen property.1 We hold that the court committed prejudicial error in admitting certain seized evidence and therefore reverse.

Between 7:00 and 8:00 p. m. on the evening of October 17, 1969, appellant was arrested on three outstanding traffic warrants as he sat in the driver's seat of his parked car at Fourteenth...

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