[Download] "United States v. Toney" by United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: United States v. Toney
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 14, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
Description
On March 6, 1969, at approximately 1:30 P. M., a branch bank of the Bank of the Commonwealth, located at Grand River and Virginia Park in the City of Detroit, was robbed by three Negro males. None of the robbers had their faces covered; they were dressed in street clothes; and they made no effort to disguise their identity. They had been in the bank for a period of three to five minutes before the robbery. The bank was equipped with surveillance cameras which took moving pictures of the robbery in progress. The two defendants were identified by Frankie Gerard, a teller in the bank at the time of the robbery. She was three to four feet away from one of the robbers, and fifteen to twenty-five feet away from another. She said one had a gun and said: "This is a hold-up." The other was passing out paper bags, ordering each teller to fill them. Cecilia Perrin, another teller in the bank, made an incourt identification of Smitherman. A customer of the bank, who was there at the time of the robbery, made an incourt identification of both Toney and Smitherman. Rowena Lewis, a teller, testified that she remembered the man who came to her window on the day of the hold-up, and described him as having worn a gray felt dress hat, gym shoes, a jacket, and khakis; that she would recognize him if she saw him again; that she saw him, during the trial, in the courtroom, wearing a blue sports jacket, that he was sitting behind Mr. Canner, and that the man she saw in court was appellant Smitherman.