Appellant attacks the court's admission into evidence of the officer's testimony concerning the victim's pretrial identification as follows: Palmer's identification of the man in the custody of the security officers at the terminal as "the bugger that took my wallet." Thereupon, the officer identified appellant in the courtroom as the man whom the victim pointed out at the scene of the crime as the thief. Over defense objection, he also testified to witnessing Mr. Palmer confronted appellant.Īlso, a police officer testified that he arrived on the scene and heard the story of the victim. There was evidence that the victim's wallet was deposited in the mailbox at a point near the terminal where Mr. Palmer were those of a man picking pockets. There was testimony from an expert witness on the modus operandi of pickpockets that permitted an inference that the actions of the man who jostled Mr. Palmer was not asked to make an in-court identification.
The man was searched and found to have money which, from its denomination, Mr. He accused him of taking the wallet and escorted him to security officers in the bus terminal. Palmer, never losing sight of the man, then pursued him to a spot near the bus terminal and confronted him there. At that time the 80-year-old victim realized his wallet was no longer in his hip pocket. Palmer reacted by pushing the man away, who then ran off the bus. Palmer that, as he was preparing to alight from a Trailways bus in downtown Washington after an all-night ride from his home in Tennessee, a man wearing a long coat ran onto the bus and shoved against him so as to wedge him against another passenger. The government's evidence at trial consisted of testimony by a Mr.
Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.īefore KELLY, KERN and HARRIS, Associate Judges.Ī jury convicted appellant of robbery, specifically of pickpocketing, and the court imposed a sentence of six months imprisonment. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Charles F. Garber, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.
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