BEAN v. U.S.

No. 88-1060.

576 A.2d 187 (1990)

Willie K. BEAN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Fisher, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Mary B. Murphy, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., and Elizabeth Trosman, Washington, D.C., Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and TERRY, Associate Judges.


NEWMAN, Associate Judge:

One and one do not, as the government contends, always make two; when it comes to counting the number of criminal offenses contained within a single transaction, only the legislature is capable of that kind of addition.

Willie K. Bean appeals his conviction on two counts of violating D.C.Code § 22-3204 (1989 Repl.), one for carrying a knife and the other for carrying a sawed-off .22 calibre rifle. Although we find no merit in...

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