Legal Opinion
Earl Egan v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 8, 1959No. 16160PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal in forma pauperis from an order of November 7, 1958, denying a motion of Earl Egan under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate a sentence of life imprisonment imposed on June 4, 1935, when he entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him and three others with the kidnapping and interstate transportation of Ernest Newman from Sioux City, Iowa, to a point in Minnesota near Fort Snelling, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 408a, 48 Stat. 781. * That statute, in pertinent part, provided:
“Whoever shall knowingly transport or cause to be transported, or aid or abet…
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