Calvin L. Ricks v. United States

BAZELON, Chief Judge.

A jury found appellant not guilty by reason of insanity on three counts of rape and one count of assault to commit rape. It found him guilty on four counts of robbery, five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, and nine counts of housebreaking. The court committed appellant to St. Elizabeths Hospital on the verdicts of not guilty by reason of insanity and imposed sentences on the guilty verdicts to begin from date of imposition.1 We are urged to reverse the guilty verdicts chiefly on the ground tha,t the trial court erred in admitting several damaging oral and…