Lloyd H. Maupin v. United States

WALLACE, District Judge.

The appellant, Lloyd H. Maupin, (herein referred to as defendant) was convicted in the District Court of Colorado of the crime of bank robbery 1 and of the crime of conspiracy to commit bank robbery. 2 Defendant’s principal contentions on appeal are: (1) the trial court erred in refusing to grant defendant a separate trial; and, (2) the trial court erred in permitting the co-defendant Kaler to reopen the case after the defendants had rested.

Briefly, the record indicates that at about noon on July 19, 1954, the Metropolitan State Bank of Derby was held up by a lone…