Sweet v. State

Appellant was tried by a jury, convicted and sentenced to death on an indictment charging that he “on the 27th day of June, A. D. 1939, at and in said county of LaPorte and State of Indiana, aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously kidnap, imprison, detain and hold one Ruth Joiner, a woman of mature years, to-wit: twenty-nine years old, at the office of Doctor P. H. Weeks, in the hospital of the Indiana State Prison, in Michigan City, County of LaPorte and State of Indiana, for the purpose and with the intent of obtaining and securing from Alfred Dowd, Warden of Indiana State…