Legal Opinion
United States v. Rees
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided March 22, 1961No. Cr. 25300PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMSEN, Chief Judge.
The first count of the indictment in this case charges that on or about the 11th day of January, 1959, Melvin Davis Rees, Jr., knowingly transported from the vicinity of Bumpass, Louisa County, Virginia, to a farm lane off Mt. Tabor Road, near Gambrills, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Mildred Ann Jackson, whom defendant had unlawfully kidnapped and held for the purposes of having sexual gratification upon her body, of beating her, and of killing her and that the said Mildred Ann Jackson was not liberated unharmed but was in fact killed. 18 U.S.C.A. § 1201(a), (b). The…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Boyd v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Abel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Harris v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Gouled v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Rees v. PeytonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Charles James Reeves v. Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1965
- State v. BatdorfSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1977
- Melvin Davis Rees, Jr. v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1965
- State v. EvansHawaii Supreme Court · 1962
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