Hardie v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of kidnapping C. L. Kirby for the purpose of removing him out of the State, and the jury assessed a penalty of five years in the penitentiary, hence this appeal.

The facts show that appellant was an inmate of the State Training School at Gatesville, Texas. That a companion inmate named “Bulldog” Reynolds had possessed himself of a pistol, and at nighttime, by means of a ruse, Mr. Kirby, who was an attendant in the dormitory where the boys were sleeping, was caused to open the door to the dormitory, whereupon the boy Reynolds presented this…