UNITED STATES v. BROOKS

No. 8672.

330 A.2d 245 (1974)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Vernon Bernard BROOKS, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, James F. McMullin, Judith Hetherton, Mary C. Weiss, Bernard J. Panetta, II, and Raymond J. Coughlan, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., for appellant.

Jeff Krause, Reston, Va., appointed by this court, for appellee.

Before KELLY and NEBEKER, Associate Judges, and PAIR, Associate Judge, Retired.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

The government appeals from the trial court's dismissal of an information charging an offense under D.C.Code 1973, § 22-3214(b) (possession of certain dangerous weapons prohibited). Concluding that the dismissal was error, we reverse the trial court's order of dismissal and direct reinstatement of the information.

The government brought the information after a mailman complained that Mr. Brooks had chased him with a wooden table...

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