Curran v. United States

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Defendant appeals from a conviction on a charge of soliciting prostitution. D.C. Code 1940, § 22 — 2701. The circumstances surrounding the arrest were as follows: A police officer attached to the vice squad, testified that about 3 :00 a. m. of the day of arrest he was in plain clothes and walked past the defendant who was talking to a soldier near a downtown hotel; that defendant smiled at him as he passed her; that he stopped a short distance away “to see what was going to happen”; that defendant left the soldier, approached the officer and commenced the conversation,…