John Allen Kendrick v. United States

In 1956 appellant was convicted and sentenced for assault with a deadly weapon. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal, Kendrick v. United States, 99 U.S.App.D.C. 173, 238 F.2d 34 (1956). On motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, filed a year after the sentence, appellant raises for the first time the claim that he was denied the right to accompany the jury to view the premises where the crime took place. The District Court denied the motion after a hearing.

Whatever may be the nature of the right of an accused to be personally present during a view, 1 the record discloses…