Smith v. United States

Mr. Chief Justice .Warren

deíivered the opinion of .the Court.

The petitioner séeks relief under 28 U. S. C. § 2255 from his conviction and sentence for violation of the Federal Kidnapping Act, 18 U. S. C. § 1201. Briefly, the kidnapping charge grew out of the following facts: Petitioner,^ young man of twenty-six, and two seventeen-year-old boys, while in custody under state charges,, escaped from a Florida jail on November 12,-1949. They were almost immediately pursued by men and bloodhounds -through swampy eyerglade terrain. On November 14, 1949, they allegedly pre-empted an automobile and…