United States v. John L. Hancock

This is a direct appeal from John Hancock’s conviction for bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). We affirm the conviction.

The record reveals the following evidence: On February 17, 1976, at approximately 1:30 p. m., an armed robber entered the Farm and Home Savings and Loan Association in St. Louis, Missouri, and handed the teller, Paula Marqua, a note demanding all her paper money. The note said that the robber had a gun and that someone would get killed if the teller did not cooperate. Marqua gave the money, later determined to be $933, to the robber, who then exited the savings…