United States v. Donald Ellsworth Thomas

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

Defendants appeal from convictions and sentences after jury verdicts of guilty on a single count charging each with violating 18 U.S.C. § 2114 (1970), by armed robbery of a post office at Al-ledonia, Ohio, on the 15th day of November 1970 during which robbery it was charged that defendants put the life of the postmistress in jeopardy by the use of dangerous weapons.

There was more than ample evidence to identify the three appellants as the persons who committed the robbery.

This was a peculiarly brutal crime. Three bandits forced their way into a farmhouse and required…