Zimmerman v. State

OPINION

BAKER, Judge.

Appellant-defendant John Zimmerman appeals his conviction for Kidnapping,1 a class A felony, claiming that: (1) the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction; (2) the jury was improperly instructed; and (8) he was improperly sentenced. As to the sufficiency claim, Zimmerman maintains that his conviction must be set aside because the State failed to adequately prove the requisite intent, inasmuch as he never used force or threatened force and he neither harmed nor threatened harm to the vie-tim. Because we agree with Zimmerman that the State failed to sufficiently…