Riley v. District of Columbia
Decision Date | 19 February 1965 |
Docket Number | No. 3595. {DO] No. 3596. {DO] No. 3597. {DO] No. 3598.,3595. {DO] No. 3596. {DO] No. 3597. {DO] No. 3598. |
Citation | 207 A.2d 121 |
Parties | Maurice A. RILEY, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee. James T. RUFFIN, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee. |
Court | D.C. Court of Appeals |
Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, with whom Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, and Ted D. Kuemmerling, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.
Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.
Appellants were charged in separate informations with disorderly conduct in violation of 22 D.C.Code 1961 § 1121(4) and with vagrancy in violation of 22 D.C.Code 1961 § 3302(1). The cases were consolidated for trial. Neither appellant took the stand in his own defense. The trial court, sitting without a jury, found appellants guilty as charged. Appellants contend they were prejudiced in their trial on the charges of disorderly conduct by the admission of evidence of their prior criminal convictions in support of the charges of vagrancy and that it was error to deny their oral motions, made after the trial had begun, for severance of the two charges.
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