State v. Howard

OPINION

BYERS, Judge.

The appellants were convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to serve not less than four (4) years nor more than ten (10) years. They were convicted, also, of aggravated rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. • Both appellants attack the sufficiency of the evidence and say the verdicts were the result of passion on the part of the jury.

McBee in a separate issue says his case should have been severed from Howard’s case for trial because Howard’s confession implicated him and the redaction thereof did not sufficiently protect his right of confrontation.

Howard, separately,…