Jesse Eugene Dearinger and Theodore J. Weinreich v. United States

BROWNING, Circuit Judge.

Appellants were convicted of violations of 18 U.S.C.A. § 2113, as a result of the attempted robbery of the University Place Branch of the National Bank of Washington in Tacoma, Washington, on November 21, 1962.

Appeal of Jesse Eugene Dearinger

Appellant Dearinger’s principal specification of error arises out of the following circumstances:

After the government had completed its case and Dearinger’s retained counsel had presented several witnesses for the defense, Dearinger expressed dissatisfaction with his counsel’s performance and asked that counsel be “withdrawn from…