Price v. United States

PIOOD, Associate Judge.

In a nonjury trial appellant was convicted of soliciting for prostitution 1 and sentenced to ninety days in jail. On appeal she alleges that there was insufficient evidence to sustain a conviction; that the trial judge erroneously admitted certain hearsay testimony; and that it was error to permit a reopening of the case after both the Government and defense had rested and final arguments had commenced.

An officer of the Metropolitan Police Department testified that in the early morning of March 17, 1957, while standing on a street corner engaged in conversation with a…