UNITED STATES v. KELLY

No. 6020.

269 F.2d 448 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Kathryn Thorne KELLY and Ora L. Shannon, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

July 27, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore George Gilinsky, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Malcolm Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Paul W. Cress, U. S. Atty., Oklahoma City, Okl., were with him on the brief), for appellant.

James J. Laughlin, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before BRATTON, Chief Judge, PICKETT, Circuit Judge, and KNOUS, District Judge.


BRATTON, Chief Judge.

Ora L. Shannon and Kathryn Thorne Kelly are mother and daughter. In 1933, each was convicted in the United States Court for Western Oklahoma of conspiring to kidnap Charles F. Urschel at Oklahoma City, transport him into Texas, and there hold him in concealment for the payment of ransom. Each was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and on appeal both judgments and sentences were affirmed. Shannon v. United States, 10 Cir., 76...

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