Legal Opinion
Tyrus Fields Jones and Robert Wesley Princeler v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 30, 1960No. 8069PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the denial of a motion for a new trial based upon after-discovered evidence, the confession of another that he and an accomplice, not the defendants, were the bank robbers.
On a Sunday evening in January 1958, a branch bank in Marlow Heights, Maryland, was robbed. Two armed bandits, wearing “Frankenstein” masks, forced their way into the apartment of the manager of the branch, a Mr. Cranford, They forced Mr. Cranford to accompany one of them to the bank, and, there, to open the night depository. The other, armed with a sawed-off shotgun,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Griffin v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1959
- Jeffries v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
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3Cited by32 opinions
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- United States v. James Harvey Johnson, AKA "Dinky,"Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1973
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