EDMONDSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 8461.

346 A.2d 515 (1975)

Corinthams EDMONDSON, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 24, 1975.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 13, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene M. Bond, Washington, D. C., appointed by the court, for appellant.

Hamilton P. Fox, III, Asst. U. S. Atty. with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and C. Madison Brewer, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, KERN and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of rape in violation of D.C. Code 1973, § 22-2801. He urges on appeal that (1) the complainant's seven-year-old daughter was not competent to testify against him as a witness for the government, (2) the trial court improperly excluded testimony concerning the prosecutrix's previous unchaste behavior which permitted the inference she was less susceptible to intimidation and fear of violence as a result of such prior...

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