HAMILTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 72-1501.

475 F.2d 512 (1973)

Norman Lee HAMILTON, Defendant-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rollie L. Woodall (Court Appointed), Nashville, Tenn., on brief for appellant.

Joe B. Brown, Asst. U. S. Atty., for appellee; Charles H. Anderson, U. S. Atty., M. D. Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn., on brief.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, LIVELY, Circuit Judge, and YOUNG, District Judge.


LIVELY, Circuit Judge.

The appellant robbed a branch of First American National Bank in Nashville, Tennessee shortly after noon on September 16, 1971. An off-duty policeman who was in the bank on personal business arrested appellant as he was getting into a taxi cab in front of the bank immediately after the robbery. Although appellant had told the teller from whom he took $744 that he had a gun in his pocket, when arrested he was unarmed and did not resist. While...

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