PALMORE v. UNITED STATES

No. 5831.

290 A.2d 573 (1972)

Roosevelt F. PALMORE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank F. Flegal, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

James A. Adams, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Warren R. King, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, KERN and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.


KERN, Associate Judge:

Appellant was tried and convicted in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia of a "local" felony, that is, carrying a dangerous weapon (a pistol), after having sustained a prior felony conviction, D.C.Code 1967, § 22-3204.1 He contests the jurisdiction of the Superior Court to hear his case2 because he alleges that only a federal ...

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