Legal Opinion
Brock v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided May 18, 1956No. 1765PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAYTON, Acting Judge.
Appellant was convicted of stealing currency from the locked brief case of an occupant of a rooming house where she was working as a maid.
On this appeal our initial question is one of jurisdiction. Appellant says that because the amount of the theft was shown to be $200 the government had no right to prosecute her under our petit larceny statute. Code 1951, Supp. Ill, § 22-2202, which covers thefts of “any property of value of less than $100.”
We agree that in larceny cases it is a part of the government’s burden to prove the value of the thing stolen. And in cases of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Curley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1947
- Cooper v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954
- Benny Wigfall v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1956
- Heard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954
- McQuaid v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Boone v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1972
- Bond v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1967
- William D. Mitchell v. United States of America, Eddie Devone v. United States of America, Wayne A. Boone v. United States of America, Langford Beacham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
- Mitchell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
- Jones v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1975
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