Purvis v. United States

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted of unlawful possession of heroin 1 by the trial court sitting without a jury. He was sentenced to 270 days imprisonment. This appeal followed.

For reasons which will appear, the only witness at the trial was one of the arresting officers. He testified that in the early afternoon of January 7, 1970, he and another officer, both dressed in plain clothes, were patrolling in an unmarked car (a private automobile). They approached the intersection of 12th and M Streets, N.W., from the south and were preparing to turn east on M Street. At this…