UNITED STATES v. SAFLEY

Nos. 12497, 12525.

408 F.2d 603 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jess Ross SAFLEY, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Augustus BUTLER, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 17, 1969.

Certiorari Denied June 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Duffy, Jr., Alexandria, Va., for appellant, Butler.

Harry P. Hart, Alexandria, Va., for appellant, Safley.

John D. Schmidtlein, Asst. U. S. Atty. (C. V. Spratley, Jr., U. S. Atty., and C. P. Montgomery, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied June 23, 1969. See 89 S.Ct. 2147.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

In these consolidated appeals Augustus Butler and Jesse Ross Safley seek reversals of their convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (b) for bank robbery and theft. We affirm the judgments of the district court.

I.

Several months before the trial, Butler moved for a severance because Safley had signed a confession that...

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