HESS v. UNITED STATES

No. 15831.

254 F.2d 578 (1958)

Louis Clifton HESS, Donald Kilsmuth Hess and Lewis Milton Williams, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

April 11, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Clifton Hess, Donald Kilsmuth Hess and Lewis Milton Williams, pro se.

Edward L. Scheufler, U. S. Atty., and Kenneth C. West, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and MATTHES, Circuit Judges.


MATTHES, Circuit Judge.

Count I of an indictment filed in the United States District Court, Western District of Missouri, on November 28, 1956, in substance charged that on November 11, 1956, all three appellants violated Title 18 U.S.C. § 1201 by unlawfully kidnapping, for ransom, reward or otherwise, and by transporting in interstate commerce from Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, into Mission, Johnson County, Kansas, one Raymond Isrial Brasfield, who...

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