Robert J. Fletcher v. United States

PRETTYMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellant Fletcher was indicted, tried and convicted on a charge of robbery. The allegations were that he and two companions hailed a cab and directed the driver to take them to a certain address, and that upon arrival there they beat the driver almost into unconsciousness and robbed him. One of the alleged robbers was a juvenile named Anderson. He was apprehended and referred to the Juvenile Court, which sent him to the National Training School. He later testified before the grand jury, relating the affair of the robbery as the Government claimed it to be.

Upon…