HARRIS v. AKINDULURENI

No. 8996.

342 A.2d 684 (1975)

Milton HARRIS and the District of Columbia, a Municipal Corporation, Appellants, v. Isaac A. AKINDULURENI, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 23, 1975.

Rehearing En Banc Denied July 28, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, Louis P. Robbins, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Miller W. Marshall, Washington, D. C., with whom Charles C. Parsons, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before FICKLING, KERN and HARRIS, Associate Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The District of Columbia and Milton Harris, a D. C., Police Officer, appeal from a judgment entered against them1 after a jury trial at which counsel for appellants2 was not present. The sole issue raised for our consideration on this appeal is the propriety of the denial of appellants' motions for a continuance of the trial.

The instant case was first tried to a jury, after several pretrial...

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