United States v. Vincent Randolph Thornton

On October 27, 1977, the Dawson Branch of the Albany First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Dawson, Georgia, was robbed at gunpoint. A jury convicted Vincent Randolph Thornton of committing the robbery. He was sentenced to serve twenty years in prison, with eligibility for parole at the determination of the Board of Parole, the sentence to run consecutively to federal sentences already being served.

An appeal was filed, and we heard oral argument in New Orleans on December 6, 1978. We affirm the judgment of the District Court.

Thornton’s apprehension occurred, quite unexpectedly, in…