Charles v. Turner v. United States

DANAHER, Circuit Judge:

Four men on December 1, 1965 were involved in a robbery. This appellant and one Tyler were found guilty.1 At gunpoint $3,300 had been taken from Giant Food Store employees whom the robbers rounded up and forcibly herded into a meat box. Both Turner and Tyler were identified by employees as well as by McFarland who testified further in detail as to the planning and execution of the robbery.

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Turner advances what he describes on brief as the “admittedly novel contention” that the trial judge should have conducted “a voir dire, outside the presence of the jury, concerning…