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VAUGHN v. UNITED STATES

No. 9648.

367 A.2d 1291 (1977)

Talmadge E. VAUGHN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 19, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis A. Kleiman, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Robert P. Palmer, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and William D. Pease, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, KERN and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge:

Appellant was charged with and convicted by a jury of possession of a narcotic drug.1 The court sentenced him to one year in jail and ordered work release. In the instant appeal, we are urged to find reversible error in the trial court's failure to grant a mistrial after it was discovered that two items not admitted into evidence were transmitted by mistake to the jury room. While we view the failure of the trial...

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