United States v. Burgess

FORD, District Judge.

At the March, 1938, term of this Court sitting at Frankfort, the defendant William Burgess and three others entered pleas of guilty to an indictment which charged them with the robbery of the Farmers Bank of Milton, Kentucky, a state bank, the deposits of which were insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The indictment contained two counts. The first count charged that the defendants feloniously robbed the bank by force and violence and by putting in fear the Assistant Cashier, the crime defined by subsection (a) of § 588b, Title 12 U.S.C.A. The second count…