Harry C. Williams v. United States
This text of 282 F.2d 867 (Harry C. Williams v. United States) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The appeal is from convictions of housebreaking, 22 D.C.Code § 1801 (1951), and larceny, 22 D.C.Code §§ 2201, 2202 (Supp. VIII, 1960). Earlier convictions were reversed by this court. Williams v. United States, 105 U.S.App. D.C. 41, 263 F.2d 487.
The principal question now is, whether trial counsel’s failure to seek to impeach the complaining witness by the use of a police investigation report, containing statements attributed to the witness, constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. We think appellant received effective assistance of counsel, and that the evidence regarding identification of appellant made a case for the jury. Finding no error in these or in any other respects the judgment is
Affirmed.
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