State v. Nevels

The defendant Willie Nevels was convicted of kidnapping and rape committed on August 21, 1973. His assignments of error charge: (1) Insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction; (2) prejudicial error in excluding defendant from a conference with a juror regarding alleged misconduct; and (3) excessiveness of the sentence. We affirm the judgment of the District Court.

The actual kidnapping and rape of the girl are not challenged but defendant insists he has been mistakenly identified as the offender. It is undisputed that the girl who was victimized passed a black man on the street…