United States v. Henry Paul Norman Caron and Michael Joseph Castello

HINCKS, Circuit Judge.

The only question presented by this appeal arises from the admission, at trial, of the confession of one Henegan, a co-defendant tried and convicted in the same trial as these appellants. There was evidence which tended to show that on March 22, 1955, a lone man armed with a gun partly concealed by an umbrella held up a teller at the Liberty Avenue Branch of the Bank of Manhattan and escaped with $3,320. The teller identified Henegan as the robber. And Henegan confessed to agents of the F.B.I. His confession identified Caron as the instigator and planner of the crimes…