Legal Opinion
White v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 11, 1998No. 97-CF-124PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERRY, Associate Judge:
Appellant was convicted of carrying a pistol without a license (CPWL), in violation of D.C.Code § 22-3204(a) (1996). His sole contention on appeal is that the government’s evidence was insufficient to sustain his CPWL conviction because the pistol, when recovered by the police, was in a box in the back of an ice cream truck which he had been driving, and thus was not “on or about” his person as required by the statute. We affirm. 1
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A. The Government’s Evidence
In the early morning hours of February 20, .1996, Officers Robert Wigton and Mark Wood were on plainclothes duty…
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