Rittenour v. District of Columbia

HOOD, Associate Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction on a charge of committing a “lewd, obscene, or indecent act in the District of Columbia.” 1 The conviction was based on the testimony of two police officers, members of the ■Morals Division (appellant neither testified nor offered any evidence on his behalf), which was substantially the following:

As the result of a complaint received from the Probation Department of the Municipal Court, Officer Arscott made a telephone call to appellant at his home. The officer represented to appellant that he was “down and out,” did not have “much money”…