Chambers v. District of Columbia

7 Citing cases

  1. O'Bryant v. District of Columbia

    223 A.2d 799 (D.C. 1966)   Cited 7 times
    In O'Bryant v. District of Columbia, D.C.App., 223 A.2d 799, 801 (1966), we held: "It is fundamental that the credibility of a witness is to be determined by the trier of fact, and such determination is not subject to review."

    In Yeager v. District of Columbia, D.C.Mun.App., 33 A.2d 629 (1943), we held that an appeal as of right would not lie where the appellant had been charged in separate informations with eight offenses, was found guilty, and was fined $25 for each offense. In Chambers v. District of Columbia, 90 U.S.App.D.C. 153, 194 F.2d 336 (1952), reversing D.C.Mun.App., 80 A.2d 397 (1951), eighteen infractions had been charged in a single information. The appellant had been found guilty on all counts and fined $25 on each (some "to run concurrently"), and the judgment as entered on the back of the information included the notation: "(total fine $100)."

  2. Hicks v. District of Columbia

    234 A.2d 801 (D.C. 1967)   Cited 4 times

    The fact that the figures are totaled on the information does not, in our opinion, change the two separate consecutive sentences into one general sentence to cover both counts. Reliance is placed on Chambers v. District of Columbia, 90 U.S.App.D.C. 153, 194 F.2d 336 (1952), where, on an information charging violations of the Minimum Wage Law in 18 separate counts, the defendant was sentenced to consecutive fines of $25 on four counts, with concurrent fines of $25 on the remaining counts. The entry on the information also read "(total fine $100)".

  3. Fields v. District of Columbia

    404 F.2d 1323 (D.C. Cir. 1968)   Cited 6 times

    Rule 1(c). See also Thomason v. Thomason, 107 U.S.App.D.C. 27, 28, 274 F.2d 89, 90 (1959); Chambers v. District of Columbia, 90 U.S.App.D.C. 153, 154, 194 F.2d 336, 337 (1952); District of Columbia v. Little, 85 U.S.App.D.C. 242, 243, 178 F.2d 13, 14, 13 A.L.R.2d 954 (1949), aff'd 339 U.S. 1, 70 S.Ct. 468, 94 L.Ed. 599 (1950). And see Easter v. District of Columbia, 124 U.S.App.D.C. 33, 361 F.2d 50 ( en banc 1966).

  4. State v. Owens

    54 N.J. 153 (N.J. 1969)   Cited 38 times

    The final question is whether, when several petty offenses are tried together, a jury trial should be accorded because the maximum authorized sentences aggregate more than a year. Defendant refers to Chambers v. District of Columbia,90 U.S. App. D.C. 153, 194 F.2d 336 ( D.C. Cir. 1952), in which a right to appeal was found because the dollar penalties imposed on the several charges totaled more than the minimum sum requisite for appeal. To the same effect is O'Bryant v. Districtof Columbia, 223 A.2d 799 ( D.C. Ct. App. 1966).

  5. Thomas v. United States

    129 A.2d 852 (D.C. 1957)   Cited 6 times

    Hence it cannot be said to be less than $50; indeed it cannot be measured in money terms. The situation is unlike Yeager v. District of Columbia, D.C.Mun.App., 33 A.2d 629, where we held that were there were a number of fines, each under $50, but more than that in the aggregate, the proper method of review was by application, not of right. Cf. Chambers v. District of Columbia, 90 U.S.App.D.C. 153, 194 F.2d 336. We are satisfied that the trend of decisions honoring rather than discouraging the right of appeal, requires a ruling that appellant has not forfeited his rights, and has taken proper steps for review of his conviction.

  6. Scott v. District of Columbia

    122 A.2d 579 (D.C. 1956)   Cited 14 times

    Making no claim to constitutional right of trial by jury, appellant rests his claim on the statutory right to jury trial in cases "wherein the fine or penalty may be more than $300, or imprisonment as punishment for the offense may be more than ninety days". Appellant's claim is that in effect a single penalty of $2,400 was imposed upon him and therefore he was entitled to a jury trial under the above-mentioned Code Section. He argues that the rationale of Chambers v. District of Columbia, 90 U.S.App.D.C. 153, 194 F.2d 336, 337, should be applied here. Code 1951, ยง 11-616.

  7. Chambers v. District of Columbia

    89 A.2d 636 (D.C. 1952)   Cited 1 times

    In Chambers v. District of Columbia, D.C.Mun.App., 80 A.2d 397, we dismissed this appeal, but our ruling was reversed and the case remanded to us for a hearing on the merits. Chambers v. District of Columbia, D.C. Cir., 194 F.2d 336. The minimum wage law established the Minimum Wage Board and authorized it "to investigate and ascertain the wages of women and minors in the different occupations in which they are employed," and to ascertain and declare, in the manner thereafter provided, "Standards of minimum wages for women in any occupation * * *, and what wages are inadequate to supply the necessary cost of living to any such women workers to maintain them in good health and to protect their morals.