Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Arthur Fitzpatrick
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 16, 1978No. 77-5516PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Per curiam
Robert Arthur Fitzpatrick appeals from his conviction for armed robbery of a federally insured bank. The defendant raises several errors on appeal, but we concern ourselves only with the failure of the district judge to instruct the jury that the government had to establish that the institution robbed was federally insured at the time of the robbery. We conclude that the failure to instruct the jury on this essential element of the offense charged constitutes a trial error which requires reversal.
On November 30,1976, an indictment was issued charging in Count I that the defendant violated 18…
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