United States v. Flanagan, 29624 Summary Calendar.
Decision Date | 16 September 1971 |
Docket Number | No. 29624 Summary Calendar.,29624 Summary Calendar. |
Parties | UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Marie FLANAGAN and Jack Wesley Flanagan, Defendants-Appellants. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
Phil Burleson, James A. Mills, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for Marie Wells Flanagan.
Rod Surratt, Dallas, Tex., (court-appointed), for Jack W. Flanagan.
Eldon B. Mahon, U. S. Atty., B. H. Timmins, Jr., Charles D. Cabaniss, Asst. U. S. Attys., Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.
Before THORNBERRY, MORGAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.
Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 16, 1971.
On September 22, 1969, the Bank of Dallas in Dallas, Texas was robbed by an armed male who was driven from the scene of the crime by a female companion. Subsequently, Jack Wesley Flanagan and his wife, Marie Wells Flanagan, appellants, were arrested, indicted, and tried for violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a) and (d), and 18 U.S.C. § 2. Jack Flanagan was found guilty as charged. Marie Flanagan was found not guilty as charged in the indictment, but was convicted of the lesser-included offense of robbery unaccompanied by an assault. In this appeal, appellants contend that the trial court erred in failing to order the production of the grand jury testimony; that the evidence is insufficient to support the convictions; that the court erred in admitting into evidence certain in-court identification testimony; and that the court incorrectly included a lesser-included offense instruction in its charge to the jury. We affirm.
Prior to the trial appellants filed a joint motion for production and inspection of the grand jury testimony.
Upon being informed by the Attorney for the United States that no transcript of the grand jury proceedings could be produced because no shorthand notes or any other records had been taken of the testimony, the district judge dismissed appellants' motion. Appellants now assign the failure to supply the non-existent grand jury transcript as error. The same argument was presented to and rejected by this Court in United States v. Harper, 5th Cir. 1970, 432 F.2d 100. In that matter we stated:
Secondly, appellants argue that there is insufficient evidence to support their convictions. It is, of course, a well settled rule that a conviction must be sustained if, taking the view most favorable to the government, there is substantial evidence to support it. Glasser v. United States, 315 U.S. 60, 80, 62 S.Ct. 457, 469, 86 L.Ed. 680 (1942). After reviewing the record in light of this standard, we have concluded that appellants' argument is without merit.
Appellants also assert that the trial court erroneously admitted into evidence certain in-court identification testimony and incorrectly included a lesser-included offense instruction in its charge to the jury. Since appellants failed to object to this action of the trial court and raise the questions for the first time on appeal, they find themselves in the predicament of demonstrating that the action was so palpably flagrant...
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