DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. VAN NUYS

No. 5863.

282 A.2d 550 (1971)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Frederick VAN NUYS, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 26, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant.

Peter Weisman, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before FICKLING, GALLAGHER and REILLY, Associate Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal by the government from a judgment dismissing an information charging disorderly congregating in a public thoroughfare after denying a motion to amend the information. The proposed amendment was to add "by sitting with others in the roadway", a necessary allegation to describe the conduct of the defendant with particularity.

Before deciding whether to permit the government to amend the...

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