WILKINS, J.
The defendant was convicted on an indictment which charged him with an attempt, "without lawful authority, to forcibly seize, confine and kidnap [the victim] with intent to cause her to be forcibly and secretly confined and imprisoned within the said Commonwealth against her will and to be held to service against her will." The Appeals Court reversed the conviction on the ground that the trial judge failed to give adequate instructions concerning the requisite...
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