(DOWNLOAD) "Charles W. Hall v. United States" by District of Columbia Court of Appeals. * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Charles W. Hall v. United States
- Author : District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
- Release Date : January 24, 1975
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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YEAGLEY, Associate Judge: In a two count indictment appellant and a co-defendant were charged with obstructing Justice 1 and simple assault. 2 In the ensuing jury trial the appellant was found guilty on both counts and sentenced concurrently. 3 Appellant argues on appeal, inter alia, (1) that the indictment was invalid because it lacked sufficient specificity and failed to allege all of the elements of the obstruction of Justice charge and (2) that the trial court erred in receiving verdicts, and sentencing the appellant, on both counts of the indictment because simple assault, on the facts of this case, merged into the charge of obstruction of Justice. These two issues are raised by appellant for the first time on appeal. Finding no merit in these arguments or in any of the other issues raised by appellant, 4 we affirm. The series of events leading to the instant indictment began when Mr. Freddie Davis reported to the police on May 13, 1973, that he had been the victim of a robbery. In the ensuing investigation Mr. Davis made a photographic identification of Gregory Crawford as one of the men who had robbed him which resulted in the arrest on May 29, 1973, of Gregory Crawford. Later that evening as Mr. Davis was leaving a liquor store at which he had stopped on his way home from work, he was accosted by three men. One of the men grabbed him and asked, ""Do you know anything about Gregory being locked up?"" When Mr. Davis answered in the negative, he was immediately struck in the face by one of the trio, knocked to the ground, and repeatedly kicked and stomped.