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UNITED STATES v. OWENS

No. 8390.

332 A.2d 752 (1975)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Wilbert N. OWENS and Gregory S. Lofton, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 22, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey T. Demerath, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Paul L. Friedman, and Roger C. Spaeder, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellant.

Thomas Guidoboni, Washington, D. C., with whom Michael L. Rankin, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee Owens.

Thomas W. Farquhar, Washington, D. C., appointed by the court, for appellee Lofton.

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

REILLY, Chief Judge:

What may well be described as another symptom of the disease besetting the usage of the English language has brought to this court a controversy over the meaning of the verb "steal."1 Drawn into issue by the government's appeal is a pretrial order dismissing without prejudice three counts of an indictment charging (1) a killing in perpetrating the crime of robbery (defined as murder in D.C.Code 1973, § 22-2401...

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