Goodman v. United States

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appellants were convicted of murder in the first degree under an indictment, the first three counts of which charged deliberate and premeditated malice; the second' three charged that appellants purposely killed the deceased while perpetrating an offense punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary (section 798, D. C. Code, 1901, section 21. tit. 6, D. C. Code 1929).

The material facts as disclosed by the evidence are substantially as follows: At about 10 o’clock on the morning of Sunday, January 22, 1933, the body of William Simms, a watchman employed by Dickey…