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- Title: People State New York v. Leroy Miles
- Author : Court of Appeals of New York
- Release Date : January 16, 1969
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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[23 N.Y.2d 527 Page 531] Defendants were charged with the kidnapping of one Charles Brooks, aged 22, of nondescript occupation and an epileptic with
a criminal and mental hospital record. They had really sought to kill him by injecting a lye solution into his circulatory
system with a makeshift hypodermic needle. The tourniquet device, an ordinary belt, used to dilate his veins and make them
visible, probably saved his life by preventing the spread of the toxic solution throughout his body. The attempt to kill was
made in New Jersey and hence not prosecutable in this State. But as their efforts to kill their victim aborted, defendants
sought to dispose of his life, and eventually his body, in New Jersey and then finally in this State. Here the frustrated
would-be killers were caught by the New York City police, with their victim bound and confined in an automobile trunk, and
with three revolvers in their [23 N.Y.2d 527 Page 532]