Bates v. United States

*543PAIR, Associate Judge, Retired:

This appeal is from judgments of conviction for armed robbery (D.C.Code 1973, §§ 22-2901, 22-3201) and assault with a dangerous weapon (D.C.Code 1973, § 22-S02). Sentences of fifteen years for the armed robbery and five years for the assault with a dangerous weapon were imposed and the sentences were made to run consecutively to each other and consecutively to any other sentence then being served.1

The armed robbery and assault occurred at the Littlejohn Furniture Store, 2471 18th Street, N. W., in the late afternoon of December 20, 1972. A short time thereafter…