Walter Wynn, Jr. v. United States

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

Following the discovery on Thanksgiving morning, November 25,1965, that a checkwriter and a calculator had been burglarized from a plumbing shop, John W. Robinson, a neighbor, reported to police that somewhat earlier on that morning he had seen appellant, carrying a tabulator1 2on his shoulder, exit from the establishment by the back door.2 Ap*623pellant was subsequently indicted for housebreaking and larceny,3 and Robinson became the Government’s principal witness at the trial. The jury — obviously, the record discloses, on Robinson’s testimony — found…