JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 8203.

330 A.2d 248 (1974)

George H. JONES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan B. Soschin, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, James F. McMullin, John C. Martin, and John L. Gizzarelli, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., for appellee.

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


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

Mr. Jones appeals, following his conviction of carrying a pistol without a license (D.C.Code 1973, § 22-3204), asserting as error the denial of his pretrial motion to suppress a pistol. We find the action of the police to have been reasonable, and we affirm.

At 11:45 p. m. on December 2, 1973, two police officers, while on patrol in their cruiser, observed a blue Volkswagen repeatedly circling a block. They stopped this automobile...

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