Bobby Ray Gill v. United States

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

Bobby Ray Gill was convicted of armed robbery of a bank in Sweet Water, Alabama, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 2113. 1 Two codefendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced before Gill’s trial. The trial turned on the ability of the Government to identify Gill as one of the robbers ; ip fact, the ringleader. On appeal, Gill contends that the trial judge erred: (1) in allowing the Government to impeach its own witnesses by asking leading questions; (2) in allowing the Government to introduce irrelevant prejudicial evidence that the defendant gave a worthless check before the…