UNITED STATES v. BENTLEY

No. 14897.

310 F.2d 685 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George Edward BENTLEY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

November 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. M. Diamond, Asst. U. S. Atty., Cleveland, Ohio (Merle M. McCurdy, U. S. Atty., Cleveland, Ohio on the brief), for appellee.

Irwin Barnett, Cleveland, Ohio (John R. Jewitt, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for appellant.

Before McALLISTER and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges, and DARR, Senior District Judge.


McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.

On appeal from a conviction on the charge of kidnapping, George Edward Bentley claims that the indictment did not sufficiently charge the crime for which he was tried. This contention is based on the fact that the indictment, following the language of the statute, set forth that Bentley and another "did knowingly transport in interstate commerce" Dorothy Maxine Stancil and Sandra Goslin, "who had been unlawfully seized, kidnapped, confined...

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