Legal Opinion
Riley v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 19, 1965No. 3595-3598PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MYERS, Associate Judge:
Appellants were charged in separate in-formations with disorderly conduct in violation of 22 D.C.Code 1961 § 1121(4) and with vagrancy in violation of 22 D.C.Code 1961 § 3302(1). The cases were consolidated for trial. Neither appellant took the stand in his own defense. The trial court, sitting without a jury, found appellants guilty as charged. Appellants contend they were prejudiced in their trial on the charges of disorderly conduct by the admission of evidence of their prior criminal convictions in support of the charges of vagrancy and that it was error to deny…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Monroe v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1956
- James Wesley Teate v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- United States v. Allan C. Cain and Margaret S. CainCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1962
- Clark v. District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1943
- Louis Fennel v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1963
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- Ricks v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1967
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