United States v. Robert Arthur Fitzpatrick

How courts have described this case

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• allegation that bank robbed was insured by FDIC; proof must relate to day of robbery
• “proof of the insured status ... was an essential element of the crime charged, and indeed had to be proved in order to establish federal jurisdiction.”
• bank comptroller’s testimony that bank was insured at time of trial plus certificate indicating insurance 10 years prior to the robbery
• '[A] jury can reasonably infer that an institution was federally insured on the date of a robbery if it is presented with evidence showing that the institution was insured both prior to that date and recently thereafter.'
• federal chartering or federal insurance may each support federal jurisdiction
• “failure to instruct ... on this essential element”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).