ALEXANDER v. UNITED STATES

No. 22191.

354 F.2d 59 (1965)

Sylvester ALEXANDER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 10, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred C. Sexton, Shreveport, La., for appellant.

Edward L. Shaheen, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Q. L. Stewart, Asst. U. S. Atty., Western Dist. of Louisiana, for appellee.

Before JONES, WISDOM and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

During a remodeling of the banking premises of the Bossier (Louisiana) Bank and Trust Company, a shortage of $6,500 in twenty dollar bills from a teller's cage was discovered after the teller returned from lunch on February 2, 1962. The appellant, Sylvester Alexander, and his friend and cousin, James Edward Pickens, were charged by a three count indictment in which both were accused by the first count with conspiring, on or about February 1,...

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