Sullivan

Appellant was convicted of robbing the United States mails at San Francisco on April 7, 1924. A previous judgment of conviction was reversed by this court. Sullivan v. United States, 28 F.(2d) 147 . The facts are partially set forth in that opinion. On the date of the robbery, Earl W. Hannan, a government chauffeur, and Winfield Brown, a guard, were proceeding on a mail truck from the Ferry Station in San Francisco to the post office at Seventh and Mission streets in that city. On Mission street, just after passing Beale street, they were intercepted by three men armed with revolvers who, at the point of their guns compelled them to drive the mail truck to a secluded place in Lansing street, where eight registered mail pouches were transferred by the robbers, assisted by Hannan, to a Hudson touring car, driven, it is alleged, by the appellant..

The indictment alleges, and the proof shows, that before the robbery Hannan, the driver of the mail truck, had entered into a conspiracy with Crowe, one of the robbers, for a simulated robbery, and that he received several thousand dollars of the proceeds thereof. Hannan and the three men who held up the mail truck have been convicted and…