Walter L. Harling v. United States

BAZELON, Circuit Judge.

We here review convictions for assault with a dangerous weapon 1 and robbery. 2 The principal question concerns the admissibility of testimony by Government witnesses of damaging oral statements made by appellant while in police custody when he was seventeen years old and before the Juvenile Court had waived its “original and exclusive jurisdiction.” D. C.Code, § 11-907.

The police took appellant into custody on the evening of February 21, 1960, and placed him in a line-up where he was identified by a store clerk as one of two persons who had robbed the store and as the…