UNITED STATES v. ROGERS

No. 71-1782.

455 F.2d 407 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Russell ROGERS and Carl Henry Kent, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 23, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Ause Brown, Gainesville, Fla., for James Russell Rogers.

Edwin S. Taylor, Gainesville, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Carl Henry Kent.

William Stafford, U. S. Atty., J. Worth Owen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Tallahassee, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.


COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

On January 14, 1971, the Grand Jury for the Northern District of Florida, at Gainesville, indicted these appellants for robbing the Bank of Hawthorn (Hawthorn, Florida), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a) and 2113(d). They were tried to a jury, found guilty, and sentenced individually to imprisonment for terms of twelve and twenty years. We affirm.

The robbery occurred on July 29, 1970. Fifteen days previously the appellant Kent was given...

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