Herbert Leo Bushaw v. United States

SOLOMON, District Judge:

Appellant, Herbert Leo Bushaw, was indicted and convicted by a jury of attempted bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a).

In this appeal, Bushaw contends that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction and that the trial court erred in permitting the government to introduce in evidence inadmissible and prejudicial statements, under the guise of impeaching its own witness. For the reasons hereafter stated, we find no reversible error.

On February 7, 1964, an attempt was made to rob a branch of the Bank of America located in the Springdale Shopping…