Legal Opinion
Payne v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 12, 1961No. 2756PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUINN, Associate Judge.
The trial court, sitting without a jury, convicted appellant under an information charging her with maintaining a disorderly house from October 1959 to October 1960. Code 1951, § 22-2722. She appeals denying that the activity complained of established the offense alleged.
This conviction partially rested on government testimony disclosing that appellant had purchased stolen meat from one Turner Harris on numerous occasions beginning in the late spring or early summer of 1959. Harris’ two sisters, confessing that they obtained the produce from local chain stores by…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- De Forest v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1897
- McQuaid v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1952
- State v. Western Union Telegraph Co.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1951
- Curley v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1958
- King v. . People of the State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Boreta Enterprises, Inc. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage ControlCalifornia Supreme Court · 1970
- Harris v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1974
- United States v. WadeDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1997
- Harris v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1972
- Killeen v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1966
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