Mills v. State

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

Appellant Buckie Mills was convicted of the kidnapping and rape of an eleven-year-old girl, and sentenced to thirty years in prison for kidnapping and to life in prison for raping her, with both terms to run consecutively. On appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the convictions, and he claims that the trial court erred in failing to properly instruct the jury on the kidnapping count. The points raised on appeal are without merit. We affirm.

On April 6, 2000, an eleven-year-old girl, D.W., was riding her bicycle to school when she was…