Morris v. District of Columbia

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

Appellant was convicted, in the Police Court, of injuring a person with a motor vehicle and failing to stop and give assistance, etc., and report to the police.1 He has not brought here the evidence2 on which he was convicted, or questioned its sufficiency.

*285The trial court excluded evidence of appellant’s “reputation for tenderness and mercy.” In criminal prosecutions the accused may, unless the proof makes it irrelevant, “call witnesses to show that his character was such as would make it unlikely that he would be guilty of the particular crime with which he is…