Ronnie Arnold v. United States

Ronnie Arnold and Renee Thelma Meyers were indicted for robbing a Federal Reserve System bank. 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (a). Mrs. Meyers pleaded guilty. Mr. Arnold was convicted after trial to the court. He appealed. We affirm.

I

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. Briefly stated, the facts established were these.

Shortly before noon on the day in question, Mr. Baker, assistant manager of the bank, saw appellant on a public way near the rear entrance to the bank. A few minutes later appellant entered through the bank’s front entrance and spoke to a teller, stating he wished to open a savings account. Given an application card, he asked if he could take it to the center counter, but was told the card must be completed in the teller’s presence. He wrote his name on the card “slowly” and “nervously,” stopping from time to time to look to his left, where Mrs. Meyers, who had entered the bank in the meantime, was confronting another .bank employee at a teller’s window with a note demanding money. Appellant announced he had spoiled the first application card, requested and was given another. Subsequent examination revealed that he had not filled in either card and that he…