United States v. Bobby Gene Gaddis and Billy Sunday Birt

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

At 10:30 a.m., March 6, 1974, two armed men entered the National Bank of Walton County in Loganville, Georgia, and ordered everyone to lie on the floor. While one man kept the bank personnel and customers covered, the other jumped over the teller’s counter and took $7,501.73 from the cashier’s drawers, patting two female tellers on the cheek as he did so. The two then ran outside the bank where a third person waited at the wheel of the getaway car. While making their escape the robbers exchanged gunfire with Loganville’s lone police officer, William R. Cody. None of…