Legal Opinion
Prisament v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 27, 1938No. 8729PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a conviction under an indictment charging robbery of an insured bank by the use of a dangerous weapon, in violation of the act of May 18, 1934, c. 304, Sec. 2, 12 U.S.C.A. § 588b.
On the 18th day of December, 1936, two robbers entered the bank at Crawford, Georgia, and forced the cashier and two customers out of the bank by menacing them with pistols, while the robbers fled with over $3,000 of the bank’s funds. After leaving the bank they were met by an accomplice with an automobile, in which they eluded pursuers on the country roads surrounding…
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