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BROOKS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 6452, 6453.

199 F.2d 336 (1952)

BROOKS et al. v. UNITED STATES. RICHARDSON v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 11, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Nance, Fayetteville, N. C. (J. B. Lee, Jr., J. K. Powell, Whiteville, N. C., and Carl A. Barrington, Fayetteville, N. C., on brief), for appellants.

Charles P. Green, U. S. Atty., Raleigh, N. C. (Cicero P. Yow, Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilmington, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, SOPER, Circuit Judge, and WILLIAMS, District Judge.

PARKER, Chief Judge.

These are appeals in criminal cases in which the appellants were convicted and sentenced under indictments charging violation of the kidnapping act, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a) and conspiracy to violate the act. The evidence established without contradiction that appellants, who were members of the Ku Klux Klan, disguised themselves in the regalia of the Klan and seized a man and woman at the woman's residence in North Carolina, forcibly carried...

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