[DOWNLOAD] "Speten v. Bowles" by Eighth Circuit Circuit Court of Appeals # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Speten v. Bowles
- Author : Eighth Circuit Circuit Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 17, 1945
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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John Richard Bayless appeals in forma pauperis from his conviction and sentence to twenty years imprisonment for robbing the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Mansfield Mo., on the 2d day of November, 1937. The indictment, filed January 28, 1938, contained two counts, the first being laid under 12 U.S.C.A. § 588b(a), which denounces bank robbery accompanied by force or putting in fear, and the second under section 588b(b), which denounces such robbery accompanied by assault or putting lives in jeopardy. The jury found the defendant guilty on both counts and the sentence was upon each but to run concurrently. There was ample evidence to support the verdict, as two eye-witnesses long employed in the bank positively identified the defendant (whom they had seen in the bank on a prior occasion in September, 1937) as one of the three armed men who entered the bank on the date charged, menaced them with pistols shown to have been loaded, forced them to give up money belonging to the bank, seized and carried away $606.51 of such money, and on departing shut the witnesses up in the bank vault with "very little ventilation." Defendant also confessed the crime in writing.