Order reversed and the indictment dismissed in the following memorandum: The acts established, that defendant by threat of shooting compelled a father and son to drive him from Utica to Syracuse, do not bring the case within the terms of former Penal Law (§ 1250) to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he kidnapped the complainants with an intent they be "confined or imprisoned" or "kept or detained". The compulsion to provide transportation had no such relationship...
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