Boyd v. State

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is kidnapping for the purpose of extortion; the punishment, 40 years.

The indictment alleged that appellant and Virgil Chester Mcllvain did “unlawfully and forcibly detain, forcibly confine, forcibly conceal annd fraudulently entice away Robert Payne for the purpose and with the intent of taking, receiving, demanding and extorting from the said Robert Payne * * * valuable property, to wit fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) current money of the United States of America.”

Trial was before a jury under the 1965 Code of Criminal Procedure on a plea of…