Vacendak v. State

The Appellant, Michael Vacendak, was convicted on November 14, 1973, of kidnapping one Brenda Burkland of Hammond, Indiana. Testimony at trial revealed that the two first met in October, 1972, at a restaurant near the high school in which the prosecutrix was enrolled. Between October, 1972, and January, 1973, they met numerous times at the school, at the restaurant, at the Appellant’s place of employment, and on several occasions in the prose-cutrix’s home. The visits to the Burkland home were not known to or approved by the parents of the prosecutrix. The prosecutrix testified that there was…