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THOMPSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 12706.

233 F.2d 317 (1956)

Simon H. THOMPSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

April 7, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald M. Flury, Detroit, Mich., for appellant.

Fred W. Kaess, and George E. Woods, Detroit, Mich., for appellee.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, and MARTIN and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The appellant was a codefendant of Leslie William Reamer, both indicted and convicted for robbing a bank in West Trenton, Michigan. In our opinion of February 16, 1956, we reversed the Reamer conviction on the ground that an identification of a masked bandit by voice alone, made two months after the robbery, was not substantial evidence where the power of suggestion in voice, attitude, and costume was so strong and was so fraught with danger to the innocent...

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