Owens v. United States

TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was charged by indictment with assault with intent to commit robbery while armed (count one) 1 and assault with intent to kill while armed (count two). 2 A jury found him guilty as charged on count one, and guilty of the lesser included offense of assault with a dangerous weapon 3 (count three). On appeal he advances four arguments for reversal; we reject them all and affirm both convictions.

I

One evening in December 1982, shortly after 9:00 p.m., James Cook left his house on Twenty-Second Street, S.E., near Alabama Avenue, to buy a loaf of bread and a soft…