United States v. Ora Ray Robinson

JULIUS J. HOFFMAN, Senior District Judge.

Defendant, convicted of robbing a bank while armed with a sawed-off shotgun, has appealed on the sole ground that his trial attorney was incompetent, depriving him of his right to effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment.

The fact that defendant was convicted on all three counts of the indictment offers no support for any inference of incompetence. The prosecution’s case was strong. Two bank employees directly identified defendant in the courtroom as one of the robbers and as the bearer of the illegal weapon. An automobile…