ROUSE v. UNITED STATES

No. 12283.

391 A.2d 790 (1978)

William M. ROUSE, a/k/a William M. Rouse, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 1, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick C. Timberlake, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Frederick A. Douglas and Andrea L. Harnett, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and MACK and FERREN, Associate Judges.


MACK, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted of carrying a pistol without a license, D.C.Code 1973, § 22-3204. On appeal, he argues that a pistol which is disassembled "is not a working gun," and as a result cannot support a conviction under that section of the Code. We disagree.

I.

The evidence presented by the government in this case was as follows. At approximately 7:50 p. m. on August 4, 1976, Detective Mathis and his partner, Detective...

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