Clarence Duke McGann, now at Leavenworth serving a twenty-year sentence, appeals from the District Court’s denial of his motion, filed undеr Title 28 U.S. C.A. § 2255, to vacate the conviction which he asserts has subjected him to double jeopardy.
In 1954 the United States Grand Jury for the District of Marylаnd returned two indictments against the appellant. The first, Criminal No. 23017, was in four counts and charged him with robbery of a national bank in violation of Titlе 18 U.S.C.A. § 2113. The indictment described the bank as a member of the Federal Reserve System, organized and operating under the laws of the United Statеs, insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and located at the Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. The second, Criminal No. 23024, charged McGann with robbery on the same occasion, on lands within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, namely, the Andrews Air Force Bаse in Maryland, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 2111.
On September 20, 1954, the appellant, represented by two court-appointed counsel, enterеd a plea of guilty to each charge in the District Court for the District of Maryland and was sentenced to twenty years under the first indictment and five years under the second, the sentences to run concurrently.
In 1957 McGann filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus, treated by the District Court as a motion for relief under Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, alleging that a national bank cannot be on a United States Air Force Base. This сourt affirmed the District Court’s denial of McCann’s motion, 4 Cir., 1957,
In April, 1958, McGann filed his second motion for relief under Section 2255, this time charging that the two indictments were duplicitous and, as such, constitute double jeopardy. Having served the five-year sentence, he urged that the twenty-year sentence be vacated. The District Judge filed a carefully written opinion
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answering the petition at length and denied the motion, D.C.Md.1958,
This appeal could be dismissed under Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, which ■providеs in part: “The sentencing court shall not be required to entertain a second or successive motion for similar relief on behalf of the same prisoner.” The District Judge properly refused to consider again the identical contentions already pressed by the aрpellant in his previous motion and fully answered by the District Judge in a considered written opinion. Having failed to appeal from ■that ruling, the prisoner cannot now file .an identical motion in order to obtain review by this court. Burns v. United States, 8 Cir., 1956,
Moreover, the appellant's cоntentions lack merit. He feels that he has been twice charged with the same crime :since both indictments relate to a $124,-■000 robbery at Andrеws Air Force Base in the presence of the same enumerated persons.
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McGann’s contention is that this is double jeopardy since he has committed only one robbery, not two. But it is an elementary proposition of law that a single act can subject the actоr to punishment under two statutes. In the leading • case of Gavieres v. United States, 1911,
It is settled that two indictments arising from the same act do not charge the same crime if each, indictment requires proof of a fact not essential to the other. Pereira v. United States, 1954,
It is so here. The distinction between the two indictments returned against the appellant is obvious. The indictment in Criminal No. 23017 was framed under Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 2113, which penalizes the robbery of “any bank.” The indictment in Criminal No. 23024 was framed *959 under Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 2111, where the offense is robbery on lands within the "territorial jurisdiction of the United States.” The element essential for conviction under the former charge, but not the lattеr, was robbery of a “bank” as defined by the statute: a member bank of the Federal Reserve System, organized and operating under the laws of the United States, the deposits of which are insured by the F. D. I. C. Such proof was not necessary to sustain the latter indictment, the requisite proof there being that the robbery occurred on a federal reservation regardless of whether the money was taken from a bank.
This cаse is closely analogous to Per-eira v. United States, 1954,
The prisoner would not in any event be entitled to release upon completion of the five-year sentence, rather than the twenty-year sentence; but we do not rest our decision upon this ground.
The appellant has in no way been placed in double jeopardy and the District Court’s denial of his motion is
Affirmed.
Notes
. The two indictments are, of course, similar in several respects. No. 23017 charges in part: “ * * * аt the Andrews Air Force Base, Prince George’s County, in the State and District of Maryland, [McGann] did, by intimidation, take from the presence of Herbert D. Pinckney and Lila Westcamp, employees of the First National Bank of Southern Maryland, money in the amount of $124,-000.00, more or less, which said mоney was in the care, custody, control, management and possession of the said First national Bank of Southern Maryland, a member bank of the Federal Reserve System. * * * ”
Indictment No. 23024 charges in part: “ * * * on lands within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States * * * to wit, Andrews Air Force Base, Prince George’s County, in the State and District of Maryland, [Mc-Gann] did, by intimidation, unlawfully and feloniously take from the presence of Herbert D. Pinckney and Lila West-camp a thing of value, to wit, money in the amount of $124,000.00, more or less.”