Raymond T. Davis, Jr. v. United States of America, Kenneth M. Sams v. United States

BURGER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal follows Appellants’ jury conviction for robbery. 22 D.C.Code 2901 (1967).

At approximately 2:50 P.M. on October 3,1966, Detectives Best and Crockett, who were driving a private car and dressed in plain clothes pursuant to their assignment to the robbery squad of the Metropolitan Police Department, observed Appellants, who were known to them to be pickpockets, walking toward an intersection. Both Appellants wore trench coats on the warm afternoon, and upon reaching a bus stop, they stopped and separated. The detectives halted their car and observed that when a…