Russell T. Halliday v. United States

ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

The defendant in 1954, after two days of government testimony under an indictment charging kidnapping, flight to avoid confinement, and transportation of a stolen automobile, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201, 1073 and 2312, requested, through counsel, that the court accept a change of plea. The court accepted pleas of guilty forthwith without making inquiry of anyone as to the voluntariness of the pleas or of the defendant’s understanding of the nature of the charges. The defendant was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment on one count, and thereafter to two concurrent terms of five…