United States v. Joseph Jones

Appellant was convicted on two counts each of armed robbery and assault with a dangerous weapon (D.C.Code §§ 22-3202, 2901, 502) arising out of a holdup of a man and a woman at gunpoint at about 10 P.M. on March 29, 1969 in the vicinity of the Dupont Plaza Hotel. On this appeal he contends, inter alia, that the .trial court erred in its instruction to the jury on the defendant as a witness. 1 Since we find that instruction to be proper we affirm the judgment.

At trial appellant requested the court to give the standard instruction concerning the defendant as a witness with the exception “that…