Sellers v. United States

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant was found guilty by the court, sitting without a jury, of an “attempt to receive money for arranging for a female to have sexual intercourse” with a police officer. This appeal questions the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

These were the facts: On the evening of September 12, 1956, two members of the Metropolitan Police Morals Division were walking north on 14th Street, N. W., when defendant called to them and asked if they were looking for girls. They replied that they were, whereupon defendant engaged them in conversation, inquired what…