Evening star., 1953-03-28
Consecutive Terms
Send RobberI 10 Jail
For 5 10 IS Years

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A man. against whom two
robbery indictments were dis
missed, late yesterday was sem
fenced to serve a total Of S
to is years for another robbery
and narcotic law violations, to
which he had pleaded guilty.
He was Oscar Dancy, 26, COL
ored, Of the 1400 block of K
street Sc.
Judge Walter M. Bastian Of
the U. S. District Court for the
District Of Columbia. gave Dancy
from 4 to IL years for the
$1,606 holdup-robbery last No
vember of a liquor store In the
600 block Of Maryland avenue
S.W.
Judge Bastian also gave him
from one to three years for max
ing three sales of a narcotic and
for facilitating it's sale and con-
cealment. The jurist ordered the
two sentences to run consecu-
lively. Police said Dancy has a
record of arrests dating back
to e1945.
Faced Five Charges.
Police had flve charges against
Dancy-four cases of armed rob-
berry and one Of narcotics. in.
volving three "buys" by UNDER
cover men.
Dancy was indicted in four Of
the five caSes-three armed rob-
berries and one narcotics.
He was allowed to plead guilty
to one armed robbery and the
narcotics case. The two remain
ing armed robbery cases. SIS
grocery store holdup and the SIS
robbery of a cleaning establish
ment-were dropped.
This process of elimination, by
which defendants accused Of
multiple crimes ultimately face
the sentencing judge with only
a fraction of the charges still
pending against them, was
pointed out in recent series Of
articles in The Star.
The series also noted that to
complete the picture of punish
ment for only one crime rather
than series, sentencing judges
frequently give concurrent sem
tences. Judge Bastian. however,
sentenced consecutively in the
only two cases he was given to
consider.
In another case, Judge Bur-
nita Shelton Matthews gave a
man from Is to IS months for
each Of three robberies, but Or
dered all of the sentences to run
concurrently.
Pleaded Guilty.
The defendant, Frederick L.
Bolden. 81, colored, of the 400
block of Fourteenth street NV.
had pleaded guilty to all three
Of the robberies. Two Of them
were on successive days last jan
uary at the Howard johnson
restaurant, $500 block of E street
NV, where he obtained $50 and
$21. respectively. In the third
robbery, Bolden obtained $3.50
from a liquor store in the 800
block of v street NV, according
to an indictment.
A charge of assault with in.
tent to commit robbery against
Bolden was dismissed.
Prosecutors in both the Boil
den and Dancy cases said some
| of the indictments were dis
missed because 1t was felt the
crimes to which the defendants
had pleaded left them open to
adequate sentences.
In another case. a man who
faxed an epileptic fit during
his trial on Wednesday, was
sentenced yesterday to serve
from Is months to 4 years for
forging a $1,000 check in 1851
and passing 1t in payment for
an automobile.
Found Guilty by Jury.
The man given the time on
the check charge was James r.
Wear, jr., %, listed as having
no fixed address. He was con-
victed by a jury and sentenced
by Judge T. Blake Kennedy Of
wyoming who has been sitting
here as visiting judge.
Two bakery operators. con-
victed by a jury earlier this
month of attempting to bribe
food inspector to keep him from
reporting on unsanitary condi.
tions at the Randolph Bakery.
1909 Fourteenth street NV.
were given 3-to-9-month SEN
tences and ordered placed on
probation for two years by Judge
Alexander Holtzoff. He also
fined each $3.50.
The two were Edward Silver
man and Harry Goldschmidt.
both 80. They both noted an
appeal after being sentenced and
were released under $500 bond
each. pending outcome Of the
appeal.
Connell Robinson, 26, colored.
of the 800 block Of Seventeenth
street NE, was given from 5
to 20 years by Judge Bastian for
second degree murder In the
fatal stabbing of another man.
The victim was Samuel e. Cox,
IS, colored. Of the 200 block Of
O'Neil court S.W.
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