Arthur Wartson v. United States

JERTBERG, Circuit Judge:

Following a jury trial, appellant was convicted of the offense of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). 1

On December 7, 1966, at Los Angeles, California, the 110th and Main Street Branch of the Bank of America, a national bank, a member bank of the Federal Reserve System, and a bank whose deposits were insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, was robbed of $1,099.00 by a lone bandit. Included in the amount taken was $100 of marked currency. Within a relatively short time appellant was arrested as the perpetrator of the robbery. He was booked and searched at a Los…