Hutchens v. State

CATES, Judge.

Hutchens has appealed from his conviction of the statutory crime of attempting to kidnap in order to obtain money. Code 1940, T. 14, § 8. The jury set his punishment at the minimum of five years imprisonment.

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Hutchens, 47 years old at trial, had been a 50-50 partner with his father in H & H Walgreen Agency Drugs. The father died December 4, 1965, survived (besides appellant) by his widow, Susie Newman, three daughters, Eleanor, Margaret and Sue, and several grandchildren.

Between father and son there was a contract that the survivor could buy the interest of the decedent for…