Sawyer v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Tony Sawyer and Warnell Jones were jointly charged with kidnapping with bodily injury, rape, aggravated sodomy, armed robbery, theft by taking, and terroristic threats. The evidence at their joint trial, including the signed confession of each, showed that on the evening of November 7, 1985, the victim was employed as a cashier at the “Time Saver #17 on [Highway] 46 . . . where the paved road known as Old Register Road comes down and dead ends there as far as pavement is concerned ... at 46.” She closed the store at 10:00 p.m. and “got out of there at 10:30.” As she…