Legal Opinion

Rogers v. United States

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided October 26, 1961No. 2794, 2795PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellants were charged by information with committing an assault 1 and petit larceny 2 upon the complaining witness Charles Hutcheson. Allowed to withdraw earlier pleas of guilty, both men went to trial and a jury convicted them of assault but acquitted them of the second offense. 3

The assault occurred at 3 a. m. on August 31, 1960, as Hutcheson was traveling home from his employment at an uptown hotel. Leaving work at 2:30 a. m., Hutche-son took a bus to 16th and H Streets where he alighted, intending to transfer to a second bus routed along Pennsylvania Avenue, which…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Beausoliel v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1939
  2. Ernesto Guarro v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1956
  3. Collazo v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1952
  4. Patterson v. PillansCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1915
  5. Guarro v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1955

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Smith v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1974
  2. Smith v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2003
  3. Jones v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
  4. Corbin v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1968
  5. Williams v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1963

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