Charles D. Pouncey v. United States

EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a conviction for assaulting a Federal officer. 18 U.S.C. § 111. The alleged assault occurred while appellant was in the United States Courthouse in the District of Columbia, but not in a courtroom, awaiting a hearing on his motion to withdraw a guilty plea he had entered in another case. In discussing that motion with his counsel he became agitated and boisterously threatened to leave the room. When he seemed about to do so, there was a struggle between him and the attending Deputy Marshal on which the assault charge is based.

Appellant…