District of Columbia v. Huffman

CAYTON, Associate Judge.

This case was here once before, on defendant’s appeal from a conviction of having refused to submit to an examination by the Health Officer when suspected of having a communicable disease. We held that the statute involved was constitutional and that the applicable health regulations promulgated by the D. C. Commissioners were reasonable; but we reversed the conviction on the the ground that the evidence was insufficient, to establish guilt. In so doing we remanded the case “for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion,” and our mandate was worded…