United States v. Harold Stanley Close

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge:

Harold Stanley Close, appellant, and Carl Close, his brother, were jointly tried and convicted by jury on December 20, 1963, on a four-count indictment charging them with robbing the Edmondson Village Branch of the Equitable Trust Company, Baltimore, Maryland, on March 8, 1963, the bank’s deposits being insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The undisputed evidence disclosed that two men were involved in the robbery and at trial Carl freely ad mitted his participation but undertook to exonerate Harold, claiming that an unnamed and unidentified prisoner…