United States v. Charles L. Canty, United States of America v. Charles M. Richardson

On the afternoon of January 31, 1967, appellants Canty and Richardson, together with a third man, were apprehended almost literally in the act of robbing a bank. 1 Within fifteen minutes of the robbery, the three men were brought to the front of the bank and lined up against a nearby fence. Observing the suspects from within the bank, witnesses to the holdup identified them as the robbers. Appellants were each indicted and ultimately tried and convicted of four counts of bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) (1970), three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, 22 D.C.Code § 502 (1967), and…