Atkinson v. Anadarko Bank & Trust Co.

How later courts describe this case

• concluding that there was no RICO violation because plaintiffs failed to establish existence of any entity separate and apart from the defendant bank
• bank, holding company, and three employees have no distinct existence apart from defendant bank
• evidence sufficient where the defendant during the continuing course of conduct in which a murder is committed threatened the life of another and had the apparent ability and means of taking that person's life.
• evidence is sufficient to support the aggravating circumstance “where a defendant during the continuing course of conduct in which a murder is committed, threatens the life of another and has the apparent ability and means of tatóng that person’s life.”
• evidence is sufficient to support the aggravating circumstance "where a defendant during the continuing course of conduct in which a murder is committed, threatens the life of another and has the apparent ability and means of taking that person's life."
• defendant created great risk of death when he killed the victim and ordered acquaintances who witnessed the killing to clean up and keep quiet and there was evidence the defendant would have shot these bystanders had they not cooperated