Learoy Edward Smith, Hubert Donald Smith and Rodger Winston Wagner v. United States

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Only two questions of any real seriousness emerge in this appeal from the mandatory 25-year sentences imposed after a jury verdict finding the three appellants guilty of postal robbery effected by putting in j'eopardy the life of the postal employees. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2114. 1 The Court-appointed counsel led by a veteran of the Criminal Bar “With great earnestness and a skill which presses out the very last drop of merit in the materials at hand,” Gilmore v. United States, 5 Cir., 1959, 264 F.2d 44, 45, makes two principal contentions in the face of a formidable…