GURLEY v. UNITED STATES

No. 6893.

308 A.2d 785 (1973)

James N. GURLEY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 17, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel C. Klein, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Michael G. Scheininger, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before REILLY, Chief Judge, and FICKLING and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This appeal presents an apparently unique question whether proof of a charge of threats to do bodily harm1 requires the threat to be made directly to the person threatened.2 After reviewing the record and briefs, and hearing oral argument, we affirm.

The facts pertinent to this appeal reveal that a dispute occurred between appellant and a Miss Thelma M. Black in her apartment...

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