United States v. Albert Solomon Preston, Jr.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

This case presents yet another chapter in the continuing story of the $184,000 armed bank robbery of the First National Bank and Trust Company (Cherokee Branch), a federally insured institution located in Macon, Georgia. 1 Appellant Albert S. Preston, Jr., was indicted on three counts of bank robbery, 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 2113(a), (b), (d), and 2, and one count of conspiracy, id. § 371. In the first of two trials, the Trial Court declared a mistrial since the jury could not reach a verdict after over 13 hours of deliberation. In the second trial, Preston was convicted…