18 U.S.C. § 753
Rescue to prevent execution
Whoever, by force, sets at liberty or rescues any person found guilty in any court of the United States of any capital crime, while going to execution or during execution, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty-five years, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 10
cases, 1933–1958 · leading case: Lloyd Mullican and Kenneth Eugene Shores v. United States
Lloyd Mullican and Kenneth Eugene Shores v. United States (1958)
“] *404 There is no such difference between the former act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 753 (h) and the present statute, 18 U.”
Aderhold v. Soileau (1933)
“” It was successfully contended that the original sentence to imprisonment until he should reach the age of twenty-one years was so uncertain as to be void, and that imprisonment under it was illegal and escape from such imprisonment no crime under 18 USCA § 753 (h). The record…”
United States Ex Rel. Nicholson v. Dillard (1939)
“325 -326-327, 18 U.S.C.A. § 753 et seq. As we pointed out in Jarman v.”
Kahl v. United States (1953)
“§ 88 (now § 371) to commit an offense against the United States, to-wit to escape or attempt to- escape from a penal institution in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 753 (h) (now § 751). The court accordingly corrected its judgment to impose a sentence of two years, the maximum…”
Andreas v. Clark (1934)
“326 (18 USCA § 753 f) provides that: “All persons convicted of an offense against the United States shall be committed, for such terms of imprisonment and to such types of institutions as the court may direct, to the custody of the Attorney General of the United States or his…”
Berman v. McDonnell (1935)
“18 U.S.C.A. § 753 (f). This statute is remedial in its nature and should be given a liberal construction.”
England v. Aderhold (1933)
“” The statute referred to is evidently 18 USCA § 753 (h), which provides that “any person properly committed to the custody of the Attorney General or his authorized representative or who is confined in any penal or correctional institution, pursuant to the direction of the…”
Aderhold v. Edwards (1934)
“18 USCA §§ 753, 831, 851. The Attorney General, in the exercise of the broad powers conferred upon him, had ample authority to cause appellee to be placed and held in the Atlanta Penitentiary under any general sentence of imprisonment for more than a year the court could have…”
Huff v. O'Bryant (1941)
“The power of the Attorney General to designate the place of imprisonment of persons convicted of violating federal laws is conferred by the Act of May 14, 1930, 18 U.S.C.A. § 753 et seq. The power of the Juvenile Court to commit the child to a training school or detention home…”
Payne v. United States (1949)
“John Robert Payne was in federal custody after November 8, 1945 when he was in the Lycoming County Jail within the meaning of the term “federal custody” as used in 18 U.S.C.A. § 753 (h) by virtue of certain processes issued under the law of the United States by a United States…”
— 18 U.S.C. § 753(h) — 1 case
Lloyd Mullican and Kenneth Eugene Shores v. United States (1958)
“] *404 There is no such difference between the former act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 753 (h) and the present statute, 18 U.”
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