Jack T. Weedin v. United States

Jack T. Weedin challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction of aiding and abetting ( 18 U.S.C. § 2 ) Daniel Raymond Schwartzenberger and Lawrence Arthur Smith in the robbery of a bank ( 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113 (a) and 2113(b).

The government’s evidence clearly established that Schwartzenberger robbed the National Bank of Commerce in Seattle, Washington, on February 10, 1966, and Weedin does not contend otherwise. He argues that the evidence was insufficient to show that he aided and abetted the others in the coinmission of the crime. Stated briefly, and with conflicts and contradictions resolved in favor of the government, the evidence against Weedin was as follows.

Weedin was a deputy sheriff for King County. He met Schwartzenberger a few months before the robbery when the latter was being held in the King County jail on charges of robbery and possession of narcotics. Schwartzenberger was released on bail during January 1966.

The two men were in contact personally or by telephone a half dozen times after Schwartzenberger’s release on bail.

Late in January, Weedin searched out Schwartzenberger and arranged to and did meet with him in a Seattle tavern.

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