Jimmie Harold Butler v. United States

Appellant was convicted of breaking into a United States Post Office with the intent to commit larceny in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2112, and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Appellant’s accomplices were also charged for the same offense, but the appellant upon his motion for severance was tried separately.

The appellant’s defense was one of alibi, and six witnesses testified to seeing the appellant the night of the crime at another location and to the fact that he accompanied them to a strawberry festival the day following.

At the trial the other two men charged for the same offense…