United States v. Carson William Steel, Jr.

HILL, Circuit Judge.

This is a direct appeal from a conviction by a jury in the Eastern District of Oklahoma of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d), bank robbery by use of a dangerous instrumentality.

The Clayton State Bank at Clayton, Oklahoma, was robbed at gunpoint by two masked men on September 17, 1970; a third man drove the getaway vehicle. Twenty two thousand dollars was taken, and has never been recovered. Carson William Steel, Jr., DeRoy Shomo, and Larry Joe Jackson were indicted by a grand jury for the robbery. A pre-trial motion to suppress lineup identification of the defendants and…