Sammy Louis Haynes v. United States

On June 4, 1968, Sammy Louis Haynes and two codefendants were found guilty of bank robbery with a dangerous weapon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) (d) (1964). Haynes has appealed to this Court, alleging five separate grounds: insufficient evidence, prejudicial misjoinder, unlawful search and seizure, admission of improper evidence of “sudden wealth”, and misconduct of the prosecutor during final argument.

We have examined the record with care and find no merit in appellant’s first four allegations of error. The issue of prosecutorial misconduct, however, requires brief discussion.

In his…