People v. Parker

On June 3, 1936, the defendant, with others, was indicted for the crimes of kidnapping and assault in the second degree.

Subsequently the same individuals were indicted in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, for conspiracy to transport a kidnapped person in interstate commerce in violation of the so-called Lindberg Kidnapping Law (U. S. Code, tit. 18, § 408, subd. [c]).

The defendants were tried in the Federal court in May, 1938, and on June twenty-third the defendant Ellis Parker, Jr., was convicted and given a prison sentence.

He now moves to dismiss the indictment…