Court Opinion

ID: 9445939
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:41:33.359252+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:27.501766
License: Public Domain

SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
On the facts in this case the opinion of Judge PARKINSON is correct and I concur therein. However, I point out that I do so because count III in each of two indictments to which Drake entered a plea of guilty, charges that “in committing said offense [violations of 18 U.S.C.A. § 2113(a) and (d)]” (italics supplied), Drake “did unlawfully force Thyrza Peters, Mary Evelyn Peters, and Eunice Peters, to accompany him to said bank without the consent of” said three persons named in the first indictment and two other persons named in the second indictment. It is obvious that this kidnapping was committed as a part of the offense of bank robbery and the putting into jeopa/rdy of the lives of persons by the use of a dangerous weapon, to-wit, a revolver, in the commission of that robbery.
Paragraph (e) of § 2113 reads:
“(e) Whoever, in committing any offense defined in this section, oi-rá avoiding or attempting to avoid apprehension for the commission of such offense, or in freeing himself or attempting to free himself from arrest or confinement for such offense, kills any person, or forces any person to accompany him without the consent of such person, shall be imprisoned not less than ten years, or punished by death if the verdict of the jury shall so direct.” (Italics supplied.)
Our opinion should be read as limited to the charges in counts III which relate to Drake’s acts alleged to have occurred in committing the bank robbery (count I) and in committing said offense by putting the named persons in jeopardy by the use of a revolver. It is clear to me that, if the kidnapping occurred under the circumstances which I have italicized in paragraph (e), a separate crime would have been charged, — a situation which would not be within the purview of Judge PARKINSON’S opinion.