Randolph K. Hiram v. United States

HAMLIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Randolph K. Hiram was indicted on the charge of accessory after the fact to bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 3. 1 He entered a plea of not guilty, and after a trial by jury was convicted as charged. Appellant filed a timely appeal correctly invoking this court’s jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. His motion to appeal in forma pauperis was granted.

At appellant’s trial, the government’s evidence established that at 11:00 a. m. on December 6, 1962, the San Francisco Marina Office of the Wells Fargo Bank, a member of the Federal Reserve System, was robbed…