United States v. Charles Matthews

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

Indicted for burglary in the second degree, petit larceny, and engaging in a riot (22 D.C.Code §§ 1801(b), 2202, and 1122(b) (1967)), appellant was acquitted by a jury in the District Court of the first such offense, but found guilty of the other two. Given consecutive sentences of three and six months, respectively, for petit larceny and riot, appellant challenges in this court only the conviction for riot.1 We affirm.

I

The witnesses for the Government were five police officers who, at about eight o’clock on the evening of April 5, 1968, were on duty near Eddie’s Liquor…