Martin v. United States

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

I concur in the result for the following reasons. The case, briefly stated, as I understand it, is this: The appellant police officer was tried under an indictment which charged that he had assaulted one Sock-well on September 2, 1940, in the District of Columbia. Sockwell and five others testified to the assault; Sockwell and four others identified the appellant as the assailant. The testimony of these witnesses for the Government tended to prove that the assault took place at eleven o’clock in the evening near a filling station on the corner of Virginia Avenue…