United States v. James Buchanan Duke

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

A number of questions are presented by this appeal from a conviction of bank robbery.

We need not detail all of the evidence supporting the verdict. Some of it was circumstantial and much of it was dependent upon the defendant’s own admissions. Collectively, it is more than sufficient to support a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Complaint, however, is made as to the admission of the defendant’s statements to FBI agents on the afternoon of the robbery and on the following afternoon. While the giving of Miranda warnings is conceded, the claim is made that the…