People v. Dacy

Opinion

FLEMING, J.

By information Robert Lee Dacy was charged with kidnaping for ransom Mrs. Joanne Stafford (count I) and her four-year-old son Stanley (count II). (Pen. Code, § 209.) The information also charged that Stanley had been subjected to bodily harm, that defendant had been armed, with a concealable deadly weapon, and that defendant had' four prior felony convictions (three were admitted and one was subsequently dismissed).

The kidnaping began with the kidnaper’s entry into the Staffords’ house under false pretenses, his movement of Mrs. Stafford at gun point into a walk-in closet,…