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UNITED STATES v. BOOKER

Nos. 80-5164, 80-5165.

655 F.2d 562 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Tony BOOKER, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. J. D. ROLLINS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph T. Nall, Smithfield, N. C., John H. Boddie, Raleigh, N. C., for appellants.

Louise A. Lerner, Dept. of Justice (Walter W. Barnett, Dept. of Justice, James P. Turner, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and MICHAEL, District Judge.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Tony Booker, J. D. Rollins and Tony Gibson were convicted by a jury of kidnapping and carrying away two persons with the intent to hold them as slaves in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1583 and 2 (1976). Booker and Rollins appeal, questioning the legal sufficiency of the evidence to convict them under the statute and the legal correctness of the district court's instruction to the jury of what it means to be "held as a slave" under §...

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