SHELLIE v. UNITED STATES

No. 5604.

277 A.2d 288 (1971)

William Junius SHELLIE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 20, 1971.

As Amended June 9, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colie B. Chappelle, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Daniel J. Bernstein, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Atty. were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN, NEBEKER and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This appeal, aside from presenting an issue respecting harmless failure to properly present and hear a pretrial motion to suppress, illuminates problems of general administration warranting guiding observations by this court. Although appellant does not claim a too speedy trial,1 he does complain that his announced readiness for trial ten days after arraignment required the trial judge to entertain a last minute...

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