QUARLES v. UNITED STATES

No. 6944.

308 A.2d 773 (1973)

Gary G. QUARLES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 1, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marsha E. Swiss, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Garey G. Stark, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and James M. Hanny, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, NEBEKER and PAIR, Associate Judges.


KELLY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of petit larceny,1 as an aider and abettor,2 and claims as the sole error on appeal that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction. We agree and reverse.

Viewed in the best possible light, the government established through prosecution witnesses that one morning about 5:20 a. m., complainant Bennie H. Wall was helping his wife catch...

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