Geno Henry Barber v. United States

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The appellant was charged in a one-count indictment with violating the provisions of Title 18, U.S.C., § 2113(d) by robbing the National Bank & Trust Company in Macon, Georgia, of $66,545. He was tried before a jury, found guilty, and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. On this appeal he questions the legality of his arrest and the in-court identification made by certain eyewitnesses. He also complains of the trial court’s failure to give a cautionary instruction to the jury regarding the perils of eyewitness identification. In the alternative, he urges that the…