HALL v. UNITED STATES

No. 8095.

295 F.2d 26 (1961)

James Edward HALL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

October 9, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Perlik, Washington, D. C. and William T. Jernigan, Alexandria, Va. (Cox, Langford, Stoddard & Cutler, and Joseph D. Whiteman, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

Harvey B. Cohen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Alexandria, Va. (Joseph S. Bambacus, U. S. Atty., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and HAYNSWORTH and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges.


SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

Sentences of life imprisonment were imposed on the appellant James Edward Hall, and on one Connie Ellis Plott upon their conviction in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia of the crime of kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 1201. Plott has dismissed his appeal, and we are here concerned only with Hall.

The kidnapping itself is not denied.1 Insanity at the time of...

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