Cummings v. State

TYSON, Judge.

Richard Allen Cummings was indicted for kidnapping in the first degree and rape in the first degree in violation of §§ 13A-6-43 and 13A-6-61, Code of Alabama 1975. The jury found the appellant “guilty as charged in the indictment”. At the sentencing hearing, the appellant was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary for kidnapping and 20 years in the state penitentiary for rape, such sentences to be served concurrently.

The appellant does not challenge the weight and sufficiency of the evidence as to these convictions, thus, only those facts relating to the…