JOHNSTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 6639.

292 F.2d 51 (1961)

William Reece JOHNSTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

June 6, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on briefs by appellant.

George T. Van Bebber, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Kan. (Wilbur G. Leonard, U. S. Atty., Topeka, Kan., was with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before BRATTON, LEWIS, and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.


BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

A bank in Kansas was robbed on two separate occasions. William Reece Johnston and Fred Charles Riley were indicted jointly for each offense; the cases were consolidated; both defendants were convicted for each offense; and each was sentenced to imprisonment for periods aggregating thirty years. The judgments were affirmed, Johnston v. United States, 10 Cir., 260 F.2d 345, and certiorari was denied, 360 U.S...

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