O'CONNOR v. UNITED STATES

No. 11116.

399 A.2d 21 (1979)

Benjamin P. O'CONNOR, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 13, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Farquhar, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Noel Anketell Kramer, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U.S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, KERN and FERREN, Associate Judges.


KERN, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree while armed1 and several lesser offenses, viz., carrying a pistol without a license and receiving stolen property.2 He urges on appeal that the evidence adduced was insufficient to support his conviction for murder; the trial court erred in instructing the jury that if it found beyond a reasonable doubt appellant had...

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