State v. Bailes

OPINION.

RICHMOND, Chief Judge.

Appellants James Ronald Bailes and Darryl Scott Phillips were tried jointly by a jury on charges arising out of the kidnapping of a Tucson housewife from the El Con Shopping Center parking lot in December 1975. The victim was taken in her car into the desert and raped there by one of her two kidnappers, who then took her watch and ring before the two men drove away in her vehicle. Bailes was convicted of kidnapping for rape, rape, theft of a motor vehicle, and robbery. Phillips was convicted of kidnapping for rape, robbery, and theft of a motor vehicle with…