United States v. Ellis Mack Wilson

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

The defendant appeals from a conviction of bank robbery, contending there should have been a directed verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. The contention is insubstantial, and the conviction is affirmed.

Immediately prior to the robbery of the bank, Wilson spent four days in jail on a charge of public drunkenness.1 During those four days, he seemed to his jailers “queer.” A “model prisoner,” he was sometimes normally responsive conversationally, but at other times appeared not to understand what was being said to him. One of the jailers related the unresponsive…