Little v. District of Columbia

CLAGETT, Associate Judge.

Appellant, Geraldine Little, alias Mildred Parker, was charged with and convicted of hindering, obstructing and interfering with ■a 'health officer in the performance of his duty in carrying out the provisions of local health regulations.

The account of the arrest given by the government witnesses was as follows: One of the occupants of a residential property belonging to appellant appeared at the Health Department and made a complaint that there was an accumulation of loose and uncovered garbage and trash in the halls of the house and that certain of the residents…