KINARD v. UNITED STATES

No. 13712.

416 A.2d 1232 (1980)

Jerome KINARD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 20, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Ormond, Jr., Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, was on briefs for appellant.

Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty. when the brief was filed, Washington, D.C., and John A. Terry, Peter E. George, and Margaret Ellen, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

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


HARRIS, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of attempted petit larceny. D.C. Code 1973, §§ 22-103, -2202. He contends that the trial judge erred in refusing to give the jury the so-called "falsus in uno" instruction.1 We affirm.

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Appellant's trial was brief. The first of the government's two witnesses was Henry Tydings, a special police officer for the Hecht Company department stores....

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