Brooks v. United States

*1095SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

On October 26, 1983, Reginald Brooks was convicted by a jury of one count each of burglary in the second degree, D.C.Code § 22-1801(b) (1981), malicious destruction of property, id. § 22-403, breaking and entering a vending machine, id § 22-3427, and petit larceny, id. § 22-2202. On appeal he contends, among other things,1 that the trial judge committed reversible error by instructing the jury, after it had commenced its deliberations, with respect to the law of aiding and abetting. Brooks claims that the case was tried on the theory that he was the principal and that…