Norvell M. Bickford v. C. H. Looney, Warden

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus. Bickford, hereinafter referred to as the petitioner, was charged by indictment containing two counts, returned in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, March 13, 1947. The first count charged a violation of 18 U. S.C. § 408, 1940 Ed.* The indictment is not set forth in the record, but the application for the writ alleged that the second count charged that Bickford kidnapped three persons and transported them in interstate commerce from the City of Las Vegas in the State of Nevada…