Owens v. United States

ROBB, Associate Justice.

On the night of March 18, 1931, James H. Lane, a motorman-eonductor of the Washington Railway & Electric Company, took a street ear to the end of the line at Congress Heights, starting his return run, with one passenger, at about 9 o’clock. Appellant, Garry R. Owens, was standing with his nephew, Charles Owens, at the ear stop at the corner of Nichols avenue and Trenton street southeast, and, as the ear approached, appellant signaled for it to stop. When it stopped and the front door was thrown open by the conductor, appellant with a gun in his hand stepped in and…