UNITED STATES v. BETHEA

No. 78-5021.

598 F.2d 331 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joseph BETHEA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 18, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Waple, Fayetteville, N. C., for appellant.

Herman E. Gaskins, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Raleigh, N. C. (George M. Anderson, U. S. Atty., Raleigh, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


MERHIGE, District Judge.

Appellant-defendant, Joseph Bethea, having been found guilty by a jury of bank robbery and armed bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d), and having been sentenced by the trial court to a term of twenty years for armed bank robbery, appeals.

The government, in its case at trial, introduced into evidence two money straps which were taken from the victim bank at the time of the robbery, and it is as to the admission...

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