United States v. Larry Edward Stead

This is a direct appeal from a trial held January 23, 1969, Judge James H. Meredith presiding, in which a jury found the defendant, Larry Edward Stead, guilty of attempting to enter the Jefferson Savings and Loan Association, a federally insured institution, with intent to commit larceny. He was sentenced to twenty years in the custody of the Attorney General.

Stead appeals on the basis of three allegations of error. He claims (1) his arrest was without probable cause, (2) the Government’s argument to the jury was inflammatory and prejudicial and amounted to reversible error, and (3) the Court…