Brown v. United States

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Municipal Court of Appeals1 which affirmed a conviction of assault upon a girl three years and eight months old. Appellant was an assistant janitor in a day school which she attended. On the afternoon of the alleged assault she was put .in a nursery room alone. Appellant was somewhere in the building. Several persons looked into the room at different times and saw nothing unusual. A teacher took the child from the room at 4:15 p. m. and watched her play with other children until 6:15. During this time she made no complaint and…