Turner v. District of Columbia

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury on two counts of keeping for sale and selling alcoholic beverages without a license in violation of D.C.Code 1951, § 25-109.

While several errors are alleged, .we reach only one: the failure of the trial judge to promptly instruct the jury to disregard an improper remark by the prosecuting attorney and the failure to cure the prejudice created by this remark in his instructions to the jury. The prosecuting attorney in his summation to the jury stated that “in all fairness to the defendant, this lady charged, that the fact she does not…