Nesbitt v. United States

QUINN, Associate Judge:

Appellant was charged by two informa-tions with attempted cruelty to children.1 After a trial by jury he was found guilty *596of attempting to use children under fourteen years of age in acrobatics. He received a sentence of 180 days’ imprisonment which was suspended on the condition that he refrain from committing the same offense during the 180-day period.

The evidence at trial established that appellant has been teaching acrobatics as a hobby for the past twenty years. He has taught, among other places, at the Y.M. C.A., the Metropolitan Police Boys Club, the Junior…