Lord v. District of Columbia

MYERS, Associate Judge:

Appellant, together with a co-defendant who is not a party to this appeal, pleaded guilty to publicly committing a lewd, obscene and indecent act in the District of Columbia in violation of 22 D.C.Code § 1112(a) (1961 ed.) and paid an imposed fine. Three months later, through his present attorney, appellant moved to vacate the judgment upon the guilty plea and to have a trial on the merits, apparently upon the theory that, because the court appointed the same counsel to represent both defend ants, manifest injustice occurred which was subject to correction under…