JACKSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 6918.

329 A.2d 782 (1974)

John L. JACKSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George P. Lamb, Jr., Washington, D. C., appointed by the court, for appellant.

Garey G. Stark, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and John S. Ransom, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, FICKLING and KERN, Associate Judges.


KELLY, Associate Judge:

In this appeal from a conviction for first degree murder1 appellant claims that any one of five errors committed at the trial level requires reversal. Specifically, appellant asserts that (1) the charges against him and a codefendant, Howard Schofield, were improperly joined in a single indictment; (2) the cases should have been severed at trial; (3) the prosecutor prejudicially frustrated his lawful pretrial discovery...

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