United States v. Mancil Washington Clark, A/K/A "Mauser,"

Appellant, Mancil Washington Clark, was convicted of bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d). On appeal he asserts that the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice was insufficient evidence upon which to base a guilty verdict. In addition, he contends that the district court erred in overruling a pretrial motion to strike from the indictment, as surplusage, the reference to him by the phrase “a/k/a ‘Mauser.’ ”

On December 26, 1974, two armed men robbed a federally insured bank in Arlington, Virginia. They were observed leaving the bank’s parking lot in an automobile driven by a third…