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JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 13055.

404 A.2d 162 (1979)

William Frank JOHNSON, a/k/a William Frank Rosmond, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 2, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda J. Ravdin, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Charles L. Hall, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Peter E. George and Donald L. Golden, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before YEAGLEY and FERREN, Associate Judges, and WAGNER, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of attempted petit larceny, D.C.Code 1973, §§ 22-2202, 22-103. He challenges his conviction on the ground that he was denied his rights to testify and to effective assistance of counsel when the trial court, having concluded that appellant's testimony would be perjurious, ruled that if appellant took the stand his attorney could not elicit his testimony through questioning and could not argue...

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