State v. Ross

BERREY, Presiding Judge.

Appellant appeals the jury verdict wherein he was convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to 15 years as a prior offender, said sentence to run consecutively to previously imposed sentences from Cass County. Appellant also appeals the motion court’s denial of post-conviction relief, following an evidentiary hearing.

Briefly, the facts viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict are as follows. The victim, K.J., left work at Apple-bee’s Restaurant in Gladstone, Missouri between 10 and 10:30 p.m. She went to Papa Nicks, a restaurant in Antioch where a friend of hers…