United States v. Mann

LAWS, Chief Judge.

Defendants, having been convicted of robbery, have moved for a new trial or judgment of acquittal, alleging fatal variance between the indictment, which charged the property taken was that of the complaining witness, and the proof, which by the prosecution’s evidence was that the property was jointly owned with her husband, and by the testimony of the husband offered by the defense belonged to him'. '

By robbery as defined by the statute, D.C.Code, § 22-2901, which is silent as to the ownership of the property taken, is meant robbery in the usual common-law term as expanded…