Charles D. Coleman v. United States

Appellant, convicted by a jury of robbery, was given a sentence of one to three years, to run consecutively to a sentence he was then serving in Maryland. Two sources of error are claimed here. The first lies in the District Court’s denial of appellant’s motion for acquittal based on the insufficiency of the Government’s proof. The second concerns the denial of appellant’s motion to dismiss the indictment for want of a speedy trial. As to the first of these points, we think that after examining .the evidence of record, the issue of guilt was properly submitted to the jury. In any event, the…