Nathan L. Drew v. United States

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction in the District Court on one count of robbery and one count of attempted robbery (22 D.C.Code §§ 2901 and 2902). Appellant moved, both before and at the commencement of trial, to compel separate trials of the two charges; and, after verdict, he moved for a new trial because of prejudice asserted to have occurred in, and by reason of, the joint trial. The failure to grant this relief is said on this appeal to be a source of reversible error 1

Rule 8(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, set forth in the margin, 2 provides for…