United States v. Tony Silva

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

The appellant, a 19-year old Puerto Rican, was arrested January 4, 1968, in connection with the August 10,1967, robbery of a branch of the First National City Bank on Springfield Blvd. in Queens, New York City. At his trial there was evidence, including a confession which he denied having made, from which the jury could have found that Tony Silva participated in the crime as lookout in a parking lot outside the bank. He was convicted of bank robbery with a dangerous weapon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (a) and (d), and conspiracy to commit the substantive offense…