Fisher

This case, as set forth in the transcript, reveals a strange story. It reads as though it were a tale of medieval brigandage. Defendant and one F. W. Kirkman, riding in an automobile on the morning of May 26, 1915, near the city of Merced, saw approaching in a buggy F. W. Henderson, a prominent attorney of said city, who was on his way from his home in- the country to his office in Merced. Appellant and Kirkman, alighting from the machine, approached the head of the horse that he was driving and, both pointing pistols at Henderson’s head, demanded that he get out or they would kill him. He was then compelled to get into the automobile which contained two seats and had side curtains. He was then required to write a note to his stenographer giving an account of his absence. Kirkman and Fisher then handcuffed him to an iron rail attached to the seat of the automobile. Fisher then drove Henderson’s horse and buggy into Merced and delivered said note to the stenographer and, thereafter, he walked to the outskirts of the city and rejoined the occupants of the automobile. From this point the machine was driven along the public highway until the city of Stockton was reached and, while…