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PEOPLE v. ADAMS

Docket No. 3940.

34 Mich. App. 546 (1971)

192 N.W.2d 19

PEOPLE v. OTIS ADAMS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 24, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Bruce A. Barton, Prosecuting Attorney, and Paul R. Adams, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

James S. Treciak, for defendant on appeal.

Before: J.H. GILLIS, P.J., and BRONSON and LEVIN, JJ.

Leave to appeal granted, 385 Mich. 784.

LEVIN, J.

The defendant, Otis L. Adams, appeals his conviction of kidnapping.

Kidnapping is now a statutory, not a common-law crime. The relevant portion of our statute makes it unlawful to "wilfully, maliciously and without lawful authority * * * forcibly or secretly confine or imprison any other person within this state against his will".1

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