UNITED STATES v. EARL

No. 75-1275.

529 F.2d 1145 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William E. EARL and James Lavelle Cupit, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Saladino, Paducah, Ky. (Court appointed CJA), for defendants-appellants.

George J. Long, U. S. Atty., James H. Barr, Ronald E. Bogle, Asst. U. S. Attys., Louisville, Ky., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and EDWARDS and PECK, Circuit Judges.


JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge.

Defendants-appellants Earl and Cupit were convicted on a jury verdict in district court of transporting on February 12, 1974, from Tennessee to Kentucky one Page whom they allegedly had previously kidnapped for robbery. 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (Supp. IV 1974). Earl and Cupit were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Briefly, the undisputed facts are that Page, a serviceman, was returning by...

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