UNITED STATES v. REGISTE

No. 84-3097.

766 F.2d 408 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph Samuel REGISTE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 16, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Spaan, U.S. Atty., James L. Swartz, Stephen Cooper, Asst. U.S. Attys., Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiff-appellee.

Joseph Evans, Birch, Horton, Bittner, Pestiner & Anderson, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendant-appellant.

Before WRIGHT, KENNEDY, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, Joseph Samuel Registe, was indicted and convicted for entry of a bank with intent to commit larceny, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). On appeal he contends that the theft proven at trial was not a larceny as the term is used in the statute. We rule, however, that Registe's offense, larceny by false pretenses, was included by Congress in the definition of larceny in section 2113(b), and is proscribed by section 2113(a); under...

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