State v. Ellis

PHILLIPS, Judge.

Though defendant was convicted of first degree kidnapping of Donald Joyner, second degree kidnapping of Diane Miller Nar-ducci, felonious larceny of an auto (later reduced to a misdemeanor), common law robbery, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and possession of a handgun by a felon, his appeal challenges only the two kidnapping convictions.

The evidence is not disputed. Defendant, a prisoner at Central Prison, was taken by two prison security guards to Rex Hospital for medical treatment and the convictions arose out of his attempt to escape while there.…