White v. United States

CAYTON, Judge.

Appeal from a conviction of petit larceny, Code 1961, § 22-2202.

A police officer testified that at 2:30 one morning, while driving in a squad car with his partner, he observed appellant carrying an automobile battery. He said he stopped, identified himself, and asked appellant whether the battery was his and where he had gotten it. Appellant responded that he was taking it to a service station for a friend whom he identified by name and address; that appellant offered to take the officers to the friend’s car and voluntarily got into the police car; and the officers put the…