United States v. Peterson

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

The appellants appeal their convictions for conspiracy to commit bank robbery1 and for bank robbery.2 We find the appeal on the part of all appellants without merit and affirm.

On the morning of February 23, 1973 a branch of the Alexandria National Bank was robbed at gunpoint. Six persons— four males and two females — staged a carefully planned and executed robbery. One of the men and one of the women entered the bank and approached the teller counter where teller Mary Guerth was waiting on a bank customer. The male robber, brandishing a pistol, pushed aside the…