State v. Bromley

This appeal arises out of a crime which was widely publicized in the Pacific Northwest—the kidnapping of Charles Hyde, III, near Tacoma, Washington. A ransom of $45,000 was paid, the lad returned to his home unharmed.

The participants in the kidnapping either surrendered voluntarily or were speedily apprehended—the appellant, Dean Allen Bromley, in Arkansas.

The three were tried together. Tilford G. Baker, who forced the boy into the “kidnap” car, and the appellant Bromley, who drove the car, were both found guilty of kidnapping in the first degree. The jury, however, did not impose the death…