United States v. Johnnie Clifford McDowell

O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Johnnie Clifford McDowell from denial of his petition, brought under § 2255, Title 28 U.S.C.A., to set aside his sentence to life imprisonment. Such sentence was imposed on November 30, 1959, following his conviction by a jury of transporting in interstate commerce a girl of eleven years of age who had been kidnapped by him and who before her liberation had been raped by him (Title 18 U.S.C.A., § 1201). Upon his direct appeal to this Court, his conviction was affirmed. McDowell v. United States, 6 Cir., 283 F.2d 867, cert. denied, 366 U.S. 937,…