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§21-745.
§21-745.
A. Every person who, without lawful authority, forcibly seizes and
confines another, or inveigles or kidnaps another, for the purpose of
extorting any money, property or thing of value or advantage from the
person so seized, confined, inveigled or kidnapped, or from any other
person, or in any manner threatens either by written instrument, word
of mouth, message, telegraph, telephone, by placing an ad in a
newspaper, or by messenger, demands money or other thing of value,
shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall suffer death or
imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, not less than ten (10) years.
B. Every person, not a principal in the kidnapping and not a relative
or agent authorized by a relative of a kidnapped person, but who
knowingly aids, assists, or participates in the disposing, receiving,
possession or exchanging of any moneys, property or thing of value or
advantage from the person so seized, confined, inveigled or kidnapped,
shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, not less than five
(5) years.
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