United States v. George Arwood Stidham and Tommy Leroy Bacon

SETH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a kidnapping conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a) on a jury verdict in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

The evidence at trial showed that on April 24, 1971, the defendants-appellants, in the company of a third person not a party to this case, escaped from the Cleveland County Jail in Norman, Oklahoma. The three escapees, once outside the jail, proceeded to a street corner where they approached a car being driven by Barry Davis, a student at the University of Oklahoma, who was on his way to work. Davis testified…