The crime of kidnapping and false imprisonment are very nearly alike in their elements. False imprisonment is the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another by unlawfully confining or detaining him against his will.139

132 I11. Stat., Chap. 38, Sec. 166. 133 Smith vs. State, 63 Wis., 453. 134 State vs. Farrer, 41 N. H., 53. 135 Moody vs. People, 20 Ill 315;

People vs. De Leon, 109 N. Y., 226.

136■ State vs. Rollins, 8 N. H., 550. 137 18 Am. & Eng. Ency., 61 (2nd Ed.). 138 Hughes Cr. Law, Sec. 270. 139 Slomer vs. People, 25 111., 61;

4 Blackstone Com., 218.