United States v. Harold Tucker Matlock

The defendant Harold Tucker Matlock was convicted on three counts of an indictment involving bank robbery. He claims three grounds of error in support of his request for reversal.

During the course of the trial, witnesses for the government were asked to wait in a designated room, a part of the Marshal’s offices, until they were called to testify. The defendant was detained in a cell adjacent to the Marshal’s office, and on two occasions was brought in handcuffs from that cell to the courtroom through the room in which the witnesses were waiting. This was a direct route to the courtroom but…