Ball v. State

Kidnapping; sentence, two years imprisonment.

Barry Robinson testified that on the night of February 25, 1975, he and a friend, Walter Betz, were driving home after having taken their girl friends home after a date. While traveling on Tuscaloosa Avenue in Gadsden, around 11:00 P.M., Robinson saw the appellant, Lawrence Ball, Jr., standing in the middle of the street waving his arms. From the record:

"A. I pulled over to stop and help him . . . I thought it was somebody I knew that needed some help.

"A. He came and jumped in the car and said, `Get me out of here.' I said, `Look, I don't know what…