Roberts v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

On January 26, 1940, the grand jury of Floyd County, Kentucky, returned an indictment jointly accusing appellant (a deputy constable), Sam Roberts, “Tom Akers or Tom Parsons and Jake Salisbury” of the statutory crime denounced by Section 1221 of Baldwin’s 1936 Revision of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes, saying: “If any person or persons shall arrest or imprison another, or shall transport him, against his will, beyond the bounds of this Commonwealth, otherwise than according to law, or cause, or in any manner counsel, aid or abet in such arrest,…