Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Lowell R. Miles, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1972-12-29
Citations: 31 N.Y.2d 918
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Lowell R. Miles, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 31
Pages: 918–919

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Lowell R. Miles, Appellant.
Submitted December 6, 1972;
decided December 29, 1972.
Donald L. Austin, Public Defender (Francis P. Finnegan of counsel), for appellant.
Richard D. Enders, District Attorney (Daniel C. Wilson of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
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 to detention as to make out a true kidnapping under the former statute (cf. People v. Levy, 15 N Y 2d 159; People v. Lombardi, 20 N Y 2d 266). The new Penal Law more precisely defines and limits the scope of kidnapping and related crimes (art. 135).
Concur: Chief Judge Fuld and Judges Burke, Bergan and Gibson. Judges Scileppi and Jasen dissent and vote, to affirm. Taking no part: Judge Breitbl.