Bayless v. United States

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

A man walked into a Los Angeles bank which was insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, exhibited a blue steel revolver and an ordinary leather brief case- with adhesive tape placed where the owner’s initials are usually stamped. The bank manager, while under cover of the revolver and under the command arid threat of the man, took the brief case to the several tellers who dumped money into it. The man then took the brief case, entered a maroon Buick sedan with a 1952 Louisiana license plate numbered 91-209, and fled. A few hours later the car, with doors…