Patzka v. State

Appellant was convicted of kidnapping, in violation of Code of Alabama 1940, Tit. 14, § 6, which provides:

"Any person who forcibly or unlawfully confines, inveigles, or entices away another, with intent to cause him to be secretly confined, or imprisoned against his will, or to be sent out of the state against his will, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than ten years."

He was sentenced to imprisonment for ten years.

Upon arraignment, defendant entered a plea of not guilty and a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. Thereafter, the day…