United States v. Claude Leon Goodman

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge.

On January 3, 1969, Claude Leon Goodman entered a plea of guilty to a charge of bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d). After receiving a sentence of fifteen years, he filed a motion to withdraw his plea of guilty. The district court denied the motion and Goodman appeals. We affirm.

On December 3, 1968, two armed robbers took $7,596 from the First National Bank of Bay Minette in Baldwin County, Alabama. Appellant Goodman and his codefendant, who were apprehended the day of the robbery, told the United States Commissioner they wished to plead guilty to the crime.…