Doing v. District of Columbia

CLAGETT, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the traffic branch of the Municipal Court of parking on a Saturday afternoon in space covered by a parking meter without depositing five cents in the meter. Although the sentence imposed was only a $3 fine or three days in jail, we allowed an appeal1 because of the importance of the question of whether parking meters bearing the signs now displayed upon them restrict parking in downtown sections of the city on Saturday afternoons.

The specific charge against appellant as contained in the information was that he parked “in a certain meter zone…