People v. Miles

Order reversed and the indictment dismissed in the following memorandum": The acts established, that defendant by threat of shooting compelled a father and son to drive him from Utica to Syracuse, do not bring the case within the terms of former Penal Law (§ 1250) to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he kidnapped the complainants with an intent they be ‘ ‘ confined or imprisoned” or “kept or detained”. The compulsion to provide transportation had no such relationship to detention as to make out a true kidnapping under the former statute (cf. People v. Levy, 15 N Y 2d 159; People v.…