Thomas v. State

NAHMIAS, Justice.

Appellant Roderick Thomas was found guilty of the murder of Heather Rhodes and numerous other crimes in connection with a home invasion in 2004. On appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support four of his five kidnapping convictions and argues that two of his aggravated assault convictions should have merged. We find his contentions to be meritless, except that one of his aggravated assault convictions did merge and so must be vacated.

1. The evidence presented at trial, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, showed the following. On the evening…