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HESS v. UNITED STATES

No. 74-1022.

496 F.2d 936 (1974)

Donald Kilsmuth HESS and Louis Clifton Hess, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 13, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Larson, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Kansas City, Mo., for appellants.

J. Whitfield Moody, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for appellee.

Before MATTHES, Senior Circuit Judge, and ROSS and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges.

MATTHES, Senior Circuit Judge.

In December of 1956, Donald Kilsmuth Hess and Louis Clifton Hess, brothers, were convicted in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri of two separate kidnappings in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201. On December 14, 1956, each was sentenced by the trial judge, the Honorable Richard M. Duncan, to two consecutive life terms,1 as was a codefendant in one of the proceedings, Lewis...

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