Joe Bradley Smith and Myron Parker v. United States

MERRILL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from conviction, of the crime commonly known as bank robbery. 18 U.S.C. § 2113(b). 1 It challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to establish two elements of the crime: (1) the taking and carrying away of property; (2) the victim’s lack of consent to-the taking.

The government’s principal witness was a teller at the Bank of Nevada at Las Vegas, Nevada. He testified that he had known both appellants; that Parker had been a fellow employee at the Bank of Nevada and that he had known Smith when both of them had worked at a Reno bank. The evidence…