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WHITE v. UNITED STATES

No. 5724.

283 A.2d 21 (1971)

Robert Frederick WHITE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 1, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Farquhar, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, with whom Ed Wilhite, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

John A. McCahill, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Lester B. Seidel, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FICKLING, KERN and REILLY, Associate Judges.

FICKLING, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted after a jury trial of carrying a pistol without a license in violation of D.C.Code 1967, § 22-3204. He urges this court to reverse the conviction on two grounds: (1) the trial judge abused his discretion in permitting the Government to impeach appellant's credibility by introducing evidence of a prior conviction for petit larceny; (2) the trial judge erred in not ruling as a matter of law that appellant was within...

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