HENRY v. UNITED STATES

No. 7704.

319 A.2d 134 (1974)

John B. HENRY, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 9, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton C. Nomkin and C. Wendell Bergere, Jr., appointed by this court, were on the brief, for appellant.

Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Charles J. Harkins, Jr., James A. Fitzgerald and Justin D. Simon, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


PER CURIAM:

Appellant, 19 years old and having pleaded guilty to robbing a McDonald's restaurant at gunpoint, argues on appeal that the trial court improperly sentenced him to imprisonment as an adult rather than for treatment and supervision under the Federal Youth Corrections Act, 18 U. S.C. § 5005 et seq. (1969).

The sentencing judge had before him at the time of sentencing a recommendation from the Classification Committee at the Youth Center against...

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