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- Title: State v. Pierce
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 06, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This appeal arises from convictions by a jury of Vernon S.
Pierce, Richard Alexander, Henry Davis, Noel D. Newsom, Fred M.
Johnson, John H. Manning, Leonard Harrison and Samuel Jarvis Hunt
of varying degrees of robbery. By way of background we may state that as a result of certain
events occurring at a Wichita motel on October 17, 1968,
appellants and Harold Cole were charged with certain criminal
offenses. All nine persons were initially charged with two counts
of kidnapping, one count of conspiracy to kidnap, two counts of
extortion and two counts of assault with intent to commit
extortion, the alleged victims of these offenses being Frank
Carpenter and Jaddy Blake. During the preliminary examination
upon these charges, two additional ones were added — one count of
robbery in the first degree and one count of extortion — the
alleged victims of the added charges being Andrew P. Gutierrez
and William P. Howard. At the conclusion of the preliminary
hearing the examining magistrate dismissed the three kidnapping
counts and held all defendants for trial in district court upon
the remaining six counts. The state then filed an information in
district court accordingly, charging the
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