United States v. Donald F. Larson, United States of America v. Kenneth James Callahan

*762BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Appellants Kenneth Callahan and Donald Larson appeal from convictions following a jury trial for having unlawfully seized, confined, and kidnapped Virginia L. Piper for one million dollars ransom, and for having willfully transported her in interstate commerce, from the State of Minnesota to the State of Wisconsin and thence back to Minnesota, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (1976). The district court sentenced each appellant to a term of life imprisonment.

Callahan and Larson present the following contentions on appeal:

1) the evidence of appellants’ involvement in the…