Ratcliff v. State

BRETT, Judge.

Plaintiff in error, Richard R. Ratcliff, defendant below, was charged by information, in the District Court of Pontotoc County, ■Oklahoma, with the crime of kidnapping, allegedly committed on October 8, 1954. The information, in substance, alleged-that the defendant forceably etc., did seize and confine , one Marlys Williams, twelve years of age, with the felonious intent to secretly confine the said Marlys Williams against her will, contrary to law. He was tried by a jury, conyicted, his punishment fixed by the jury at ten years in the State Penitentiary, at McAlester, Oklahoma;…