United States Ex Rel. Coy v. United States

In 1937, petitioner was tried and convicted on an indictment charging him with violation of §§ 2 (a) and (b) of the Act of May 18,1934,12 U. S. C. § 588(b), which respectively define the offenses (a) of taking or attempting to take by force from any person money or property belonging to a bank insured with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and (b), in the commission of such offense, assaulting any person, or putting in jeopardy the life of any person by use of a dangerous weapon.

The first count of the indictment charged the forcible taking of money of the bank from the person of…