Gibbons v. State

OPINION

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated kidnapping. V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 20.-04(a)(4). The jury, upon determining that appellant had not voluntarily released the complainant alive and in a safe place, see V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 20.04(b), assessed punishment at 50 years’ imprisonment.

Appellant now contends the evidence adduced upon the issue of whether appellant released the complainant in a safe place was insufficient to support the jury’s finding.

The complainant testified that she was released at night, on a service road in south Beaumont, in the vicinity of Cardinal…