United States v. Leonard T. Robinson, United States of America v. James E. McCaffity United States of America v. Louis Johnson

LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

Appellants were found guilty of second-degree murder, submitted under a revised indictment as a lesser included offense to a felony-murder charge, and of armed robbery. 1 This appeal, from judgments sentencing each appellant to concurrent terms of six to twenty years' imprisonment, raises questions as to (1) the trial judge’s refusal to permit the veniremen’s attitudes toward self-defense to be explored on voir dire; (2) the court’s instructions as to (a) aiding and abetting, (b) lesser included homicide offenses, and (c) evidence of flight; and (3) the court’s…