SMITH v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 12173, 12426.

389 A.2d 1356 (1978)

Michael M. SMITH, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Edward M. WASHINGTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 25, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David T. Austern, Washington, D. C., for appellant Smith.

Kenneth M. Robinson, Washington, D. C., for appellant Washington.

Michael L. Lehr, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Joseph B. Valder, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN, YEAGLEY and HARRIS, Associate Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This case arose from the abduction and rape of a young woman on the morning of January 23, 1976. As she left her apartment to catch a bus to work, two men forced her into a car and drove to the Kenilworth Landfill where both of the men raped her at gunpoint and took forty cents from her purse. Subsequently, both appellants were found guilty by a jury of armed kidnaping,1 armed rape,2 armed robbery...

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