WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

No. 23517.

391 F.2d 221 (1968)

David Lee WILLIAMS, Terry Donald Martin and Donna Lee Cook, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 2, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Wray Gill, Sr., George M. Leppert, New Orleans, La., for appellants.

Charles K. Ruth, Jack McAdams, Asst. U. S. Attys., Beaumont, Tex., Wm. Wayne Justice, U. S. Atty., for the Eastern Dist. of Texas, Tyler, Tex., for appellee.

Before COLEMAN, AINSWORTH and DYER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellants Williams, Martin and Cook were found guilty by a jury of kidnapping Carol Ann McGill and transporting her in interstate commerce from Port Arthur, Texas, to Metairie, Louisiana. Williams and Martin received twenty-year sentences and Cook five years.

Carol Ann McGill, age 19, admittedly a former prostitute, was forcibly taken from her grandparents' home at Port Arthur, Texas, where she resided with them and her two young children, shortly...

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