Welch v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

This is a case of kidnapping for extortion. The punishment assessed is fifteen years in the State penitentiary.

The prosecution arose under Art. 1177a, P. C.

The record is quite voluminous, the statement of facts consisting of over five hundred typewritten pages. From these, we gather the following facts:

About 7:00 o’clock p. m. on December 7th, 1939, while Fred Mingle and his family, consisting of his wife and twelve-year-old son, Irwin, • were seated around the family fireside, there suddenly, and without previous notice, appeared in their living room, a man, with a drawn…