United States v. Melvin Eugene Yarbrough

WEICK, Chief Judge.

Appellant Yarbrough appealed from a judgment of conviction rendered in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, on a jury verdict of guilty on a one-count indictment charging him with kidnapping in violation of the so-called Lindbergh Kidnapping Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a). Appellant, fleeing the state because he had embezzled money from a filling station where he had worked, secreted himself on the back floor of the Prosecutrix’s unlocked automobile which was parked in a store parking lot while she was making a purchase. Upon her return to the…