STEWART v. UNITED STATES

No. 80-508.

439 A.2d 461 (1981)

Richard STEWART, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Elizabeth Kent, for appellant.

Peggy M. Tobolowsky, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Michael W. Farrell and Evelyn E. Crawford Queen, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, MACK and PRYOR, Associate Judges.


PER CURIAM:

In this appeal from convictions of one count of possession of marijuana1 and one count of possession of phencyclidine (PCP),2 appellant asserts that: (1) the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the defense of innocent possession; and (2) the convictions subjected him to double jeopardy because the trial court, after granting his motion for judgment of acquittal when the government...

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