Perry v. United States

CAYTON, Judge.

Appeal from convictions of unlawful entry, D.C. Code 1961, § 22-3102 and carrying a deadly weapon, D.C. Code 1961, § 22-3204.

At trial the prosecution presented the testimony of two police officers who had engaged in a stake out at a downtown hotel. One officer testified that at 6:20 a. m. he encountered defendant who had just ascended the stairs to the fifth floor of the hotel and asked him what he was doing there, to which question defendant made no reply. The officer then asked him if he was an employee of the hotel and defendant answered no; and when asked who he was,…