Hatchet v. United States

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a judgment in the Supreme Court of the District upon the verdict of a jury convicting appellant and another of the crime of larceny. The evidence for the government tended to show that, while Mike Bavoul was standing on a street car platform in the city of Washington, on the 9th day of April, 1922, appellant Hatchet and another took from his pocket a pocketbook containing $95; that Hatchet ran, but was pursued and captured.

Among the witnesses for the government were two police officers, who, over the objection and exception of the appellant, were permitted…