State v. Wall

I concur in the opinion that the phrase “without authority of law,” in Act No. 221 of 1932, is a part of the definition of the crime of kidnapping only when the crime is committed by imprisoning or secreting.a person, but not when it is done by forcibly seizing a person and carrying him out of the state qr from one part of the state to another part of the state. The grammatical construction of the statute leaves no doubt about that in my mind. The repetition of the words “whoever shall” separates the definition >of the crime of kidnapping by forcibly seizing and carrying away, from the…