State v. . Marks
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendants from Bond, J., at August Term, 1919, of Halifax. Tbe defendants were indicted under Rev., 3634, on a charge for kidnapping one Annie Smith, and were convicted of an assault upon a woman. Tbey were sentenced to jail for a period of 15 months and 10 months, respectively, with authority to tbe county commissioners to work them upon the county roads, and appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
ClaRK, 0. J.
It appears from the State’s evidence that Annie Smith, the girl alleged to have been kidnapped, is something over 25 years of age, and so mentally deficient as to be commonly called an idiot. Her parents were dead, and she lived with two unmarried uncles, near Koa-noke Eapids. About 30 July, 1919, the defendants, in an automobile, came to the Smith house ostensibly to get cider, and carried her off about 12 o’clock, and brought her back about 4 p. m. The defendant Marks was over 18 years of age, and married, and Farmer was 38 years of age.
There was evidence that while they were in…
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