WARD v. UNITED STATES

No. 11679.

386 A.2d 1180 (1978)

Karl D. WARD, a/k/a Preston Ward, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 2, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Rosen, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., for appellant. Silas J. Wasserstrom, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant.

Joel S. Perwin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, William D. Pease and Mark H. Tuohey, III, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before GALLAGHER, NEBEKER and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted, after trial by jury, of assault with intent to commit robbery while armed and carrying a pistol without a license. D.C.Code 1973, §§ 22-501, -3202, -3204. He asserts that the trial court erred in permitting the prosecutor to elicit from him, then argue to the jury, his testimony that his accomplice in a prior offense had been the same person as his accomplice in the instant offenses. Because we reverse on...

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