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UNITED STATES v. WEEMS

Nos. 11863, 11872.

398 F.2d 274 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John Louis WEEMS, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Eugene WASHINGTON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 16, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Beach, Jr., Baltimore, Md., Court-appointed counsel, for appellant, Weems.

Laurence M. Katz, Baltimore, Md., Court-appointed counsel, for appellant, Washington.

Nevett Steele, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty. (Stephen H. Sachs, U. S. Atty., and Paul M. Rosenberg, Asst. U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, BOREMAN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

Appealing from their conviction for kidnaping, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1201(a),1 defendants Washington and Weems raise two principal contentions for our consideration. They maintain that their cause was unduly prejudiced by references, both in the indictment and at trial, to an assault, rape and other criminal acts committed upon the victim of the kidnap which are claimed by the defendants to be irrelevant to the offense...

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