United States v. Luther S. Cartwright

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This is a belated direct appeal from appellant’s conviction for bank robbery. It presents two questions which arise directly from this court’s decision in United States v. Smith, 404 F.2d 720 (6th Cir. 1968), which adopted the American Law Institute’s standards as to the defense of insanity in criminal cases. This record presents a series of coincidences which appear to us to require vacation of the judgment appealed from and appellant’s retrial.

Appellant was convicted after jury trial on’ a three-count indictment charging two offenses of bank robbery and one offense of…