John M. Finnegan v. United States

Appellant on March 8, 1953, was indicted in the court below for having knowingly and wilfully transported in interstate commerce from a point in the State of New York to a point in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, within the Middle District of Pennsylvania, a named person who had been unlawfully kidnapped and carried away by appellant and a named accomplice for the purpose of fleeing from the State of New York after having held up and robbed the kidnap victim. Later, at his request, the court assigned him counsel. Having pleaded not guilty to the indictment, appellant was tried under it on…