FORNAH v. UNITED STATES

No. 81-736.

460 A.2d 556 (1983)

Eldred M. FORNAH, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 4, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry W. Asbill, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Richard H. Gordin, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., John A. Terry, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, and Michael W. Farrell and Constance L. Belfiore, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN and PRYOR, Associate Judges, and DOYLE, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.


KERN, Associate Judge:

Appellant was tried for second-degree murder, D.C.Code §§ 22-2403, -3202 (1981), for shooting to death the victim, but the jury convicted him of the lesser-included offense of involuntary manslaughter, D.C. Code § 22-2405 (1981).1 He contends that his conviction must be reversed because the trial court erred in admitting certain evidence at trial and the prosecutor...

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