Leftwitch v. United States

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge.

While on patrol, a police officer observed appellant walking along a street looking into parked cars and trying their door handles. He observed appellant for a time and then pulled abreast of him in a car. Appellant looked in the direction of the car and then quickly withdrew behind a nearby tree. The officer got out of the car and approached appellant who reached behind his back and pulled a large butcher knife from his belt, in the area of the small of his back, and threw it to the ground in the tree box space.

Appellant was tried before a jury and convicted of…