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- Title: Smith v. District Columbia
- Author : District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
- Release Date : January 03, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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CAYTON, Chief Judge. This case is here in the form of an appeal we granted on application, 1 to review defendant's conviction on a charge of operating an automobile without identification tags. 2 From an amended statement of proceedings and evidence approved by the trial Judge, and from other sources in the record, we gather that the facts of the case were substantially as follows: About 2:00 a. m. on the date of the offense charged, a police officer named Krogman saw two men (defendant admittedly being one of them) pushing by hand an automobile on which there were no license plates along Park Road near 18th Street, N.W. Suspecting that the car was a stolen one, he questioned the two men. A police squad car came upon the scene and officer Krogman explained the situation to officer Yeatman and another officer in that car, 'turned the situation over to them,' and left. Krogman, who was the arresting officer, was not permitted to testify to any subsequent events, and Yeatman was not permitted to give any testimony 'on the ground that he was not present when the car was pushed.' Then the record recites that defense counsel raised the point 'that pushing an automobile was not the same as operating the same within the meaning of the regulations.' The court requested both sides to submit briefs on this point, and this was done.
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