Boes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““As we construe this statute, it is composed of two branches or subdivisions. To constitute a crime under the first subdivision there must be a carrying, or decoying, of the person against whom the wrong is committed, away from his place of residence, forcibly or fraudulently. . “Under the second subdivision, to constitute the crime, it is not necessary that the person against whom the wrong is committed be compelled, or induced, to leave his place of residence. State v. Sutton, 116 Ind. 527 ; State v. Kimmerling, 124 Ind. 382 . “The definition given to the crime, in the first subdivision, necessarily involves an intentional carrying, or decoying, away from the place of residence, and hence the Legislature could have had no purpose in including, as a part of the definition of the crime under that subdivision, the words ‘with the intention of having such person carried away from his place of residence/ It would be mere tautology. “But under the second subdivision the crime intended to be embraced in the said statute would be incompletely defined without the employment of the said words.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thompson v. State