Howard D. Levine v. United States

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, referred to herein as defendant, seeks reversal of his conviction on an indictment under § 22-1304, D.C. Code (1951) charging that he “did falsely represent himself to be a police officer and attempted to perform the duty and exercise the authority pertaining to such office.” 1 A bill of particulars specified inter alia that “the defendant represented himself as a police officer from No. 4 Precinct.”

Some seven months before the events leading to the indictment defendant had been admitted to the bar and thereafter had become counsel for one of several young men…