Smith v. United States

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appellant was convicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia of the crime of robbery and sentenced to serve a term of 15 years in the penitentiary. The facts are substantially as follows:

As Charles Turner, in the early morning of July 26, 1925, was walking toward his home,. 1231 Massachusetts avenue, S. E., near which he then was, a man afterward identified as Belhummer robbed him, at the point of a revolver, of a diamond pin worth about $700, a ring of considerable value, and $47 in money. Belhummer then ran to a Ford sedan, standing not far distant, and…