Sams v. District of Columbia

Each appellant, at separate trials, was convicted of disorderly conduct (jostling) in violation of D.C.Code 1967, § 22-1121 (4).1

Appellants argue that the informations upon which they were tried failed to state an offense in that they did not set forth the names of the alleged victims. However, this omission is not fatal. Young v. United States, 109 U.S.App.D.C. 414, 288 F.2d 398 (1961), cert. denied, 372 U.S. 919, 83 S.Ct. 734, 9 L.Ed.2d 725 (1963); Bush v. United States, D.C.App., 215 A.2d 853 (1966). In Bush we said that

An information or indictment is required to perform two primary…