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RICE v. UNITED STATES

No. 79-1089.

437 A.2d 582 (1981)

Nathaniel A. RICE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appeals.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 24, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Garber, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Ina L. Strichartz, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Michael W. Farrell and Paul L. Knight, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, KERN and HARRIS, Associate Judges.

PER CURIAM:

A jury convicted appellant of robbery,1 specifically of pickpocketing, and the court imposed a sentence of six months imprisonment.

The government's evidence at trial consisted of testimony by a Mr. Palmer that, as he was preparing to alight from a Trailways bus in downtown Washington after an all-night ride from his home in Tennessee, a man wearing a long coat ran onto the bus and shoved against him so as to wedge...

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