Harold W. Greenwell v. United States

WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a youthful indigent, was convicted of robbing a District of Columbia bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). This case has been here before, 1 and we have also previously considered the conviction of the co-defendant with whom he was tried. 2 Before us now are appellant’s contentions that illegally obtained oral and written confessions, as well as certain illegally obtained physical evidence, were used against him at his trial.

I

According to police testimony, appellant was arrested at about 9:00 P.M. on a weekday evening, September 26, 1961, inside a motion…