Goodall v. United States

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

Convicted of murder in the first degree by a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and sentenced to death, Lawrence Goodall appeals.

The victim, Nathaniel Johnson, was a colored druggist in the southwest section of the District of Columbia. About 10 :00 o’clock in the evening of October 12, 1948, a young Negro man entered Johnson’s store, pointed a pistol at him and said, “Dr. Johnson, this is a hold-up.” Johnson turned and ran. As -he did so the bandit shot and killed him, then fled from the store. Edna Muse, a customer who had…