Carroll A. Pinkard v. United States

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of violation of § 22-3501 (a), D.C.Code (1951), on an indictment charging the taking of immoral, improper and indecent liberties with a female child under sixteen years of age with the intent specified in the indictment. On thé appeal he contends the evidence was legally insufficient to sustain the conviction and that the court erred in instructing the jury on flight as it applied to him, rather than as it might have applied to another suspect. The first of these contentions we think is not well founded, and the latter we think…