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RIVERS v. UNITED STATES

No. 8313.

334 A.2d 179 (1975)

Larry A. RIVERS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 19, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Barker, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Donald E. Robinson, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry and Douglas M. Jackson, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GALLAGHER, YEAGLEY and HARRIS, Associate Judges.

HARRIS, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia of prison breach in violation of D.C.Code 1973, § 22-2601. The principal contention on appeal is that the trial court lacked jurisdiction. Rivers argues that we must construe the prison breach statute as applying outside (as well as within) the District of Columbia. Relying on such a construction, appellant urges us to conclude that the Superior Court has no jurisdiction...

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