HARRIS v. UNITED STATES

No. 6172.

293 A.2d 851 (1972)

David Gary HARRIS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 10, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Wallace, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Paul M. Hyman, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant. Robert A. W. Boraks, Washington, D. C., American Civil Liberties Union Fund, was also on the brief for appellant.

Harry J. McCarthy, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and John F. Finnegan, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN, NEBEKER and REILLY, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge.

This appeal from a conviction for "keep[ing] a bawdy or disorderly house * * *, a premises resorted to for homosexual activities",1 presents a constitutional attack of vagueness on the disorderly house part of the statute as defined by court decision.2 Also, the sufficiency of the evidence is challenged on the ground that no evidence was adduced on the question whether the homosexual...

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