Case Name: Oliver J. MIDDLETON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1959-06-25
Citations: 269 F.2d 241
Docket Number: No. 15113
Parties: Oliver J. MIDDLETON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 269
Pages: 241–241

Head Matter:
Oliver J. MIDDLETON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 15113.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
Argued June 16, 1959.
Decided June 25,1959.
Mrs. Jean F. Dwyer, Washington, D. C., for appellant.
Mr. Edgar T. Bellinger, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.
Before Edgerton, Bazelon and Fahy, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In our opinion the circumstantial evidence on which appellant was convicted of housebreaking could not fairly be thought to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Accordingly his motion for acquittal should have been granted, and a judgment of acquittal should now be entered.
Reversed.