United States v. Richard D. Smith

BRUCE R. THOMPSON, District Judge:

Defendant-appellant Smith was convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a):

Whoever, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes ... from the person or presence of another any property or money ... belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of, any bank ... (s)hall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

We affirm the conviction.

A masked man brandishing a pistol robbed a bank of over $25,000 on June 26, 1979 on Mercer Island near Seattle, Washington. An alarm was sounded and a policeman…