People v. Weiss

Appellants were convicted of the crime of kidnapping. The statute (Penal Law, § 1250), so far as material, provides:

“ A person who wilfully:

“ 1. Seizes, confines, inveigles, or kidnaps another, with intent to cause him, without authority of law, to be confined or imprisoned within this State, or to be sent out of the State, or to be sold as a slave, or in any way held to service or kept or detained, against his will; * * *

“ Is guilty of kidnapping.”

Each was sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison at Ossining under an indeterminate sentence, the minimum of which shall be not less than…