Doss v. State

This appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted in the court below for the offense prescribed and denounced under section 3189 of the Code of 1923. This section bears the title “Kidnapping.” It reads as follows: ,

“Any person who forcibly or unlawfully confines, inveigles, or entices away another, with the intent to cause him to be secretly confined, or imprisoned against his will, or to be sent out of the state against his will, must, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than ten years.”

Before entering upon the trial and at the proper time, the…