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UNITED STATES v. POITRAS

No. 9488.

339 F.2d 428 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Robert D. POITRAS and William J. Duprez, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 8, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Woolls, Alexandria, Va. (Court-assigned counsel), for appellants.

Plato Cacheris, First Asst. U. S. Atty. (C. V. Spratley, Jr., U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and NORTHROP, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

In our opinion the District Court did not err in refusing to allow the accused the number of peremptory challenges permitted in a capital case,1 the one error they assign on this appeal. While the charge was kidnapping, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201 which permits punishment by death, the appellants were granted only the challenges prescribed for a non-capital felony prosecution1 because...

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