United States v. Smith

Full title: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE v. ALLEN BLAIR SMITH, APPELLANT

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

Date published: Nov 11, 1975

527 F.2d 610 (4th Cir. 1975)

Opinion

No. 75-1619.

Argued October 10, 1975.

Decided November 11, 1975.

Kenneth L. Foran, Richmond, Va. [court-appointed counsel], for appellant.

Donald H. Feige, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Jervis S. Finney, U.S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Appeal from United States District Court, District of Maryland, Baltimore; Joseph H. Young, Judge.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, BUTZNER, Circuit Judge, and R. DORSEY WATKINS, District Judge.^_

_ United States District Judge, sitting by designation.

PER CURIAM:

A verdict of guilty was returned by a jury against Allen Blair Smith on March 19, 1975 upon an indictment under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (b), (d) and (f) and 2, for two bank robberies in Salisbury, Maryland in July and August, 1974, and for related larcenies and assault. Sentence was duly passed upon him and he appeals. His assignment of error is that unauthenticated fingerprint evidence was adduced against him. Our review of the record refutes the contention, and we find no error of law or insufficiency of evidence in his trial.

Affirmed.