State v. Rollins

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

The appellant-defendant, Ronnie Rollins, was convicted of robbery and of kidnapping for the purpose of committing robbery, and received concurrent sentences of five to fifteen years and twenty years, respectively. On appeal he challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence and the correctness of the trial court’s kidnapping instruction under T.C.A. § 39-2603. We find no reversible error, and we therefore affirm the conviction.

The proof establishes that on the evening of December 11, 1978, the defendant went to the Palmer, Tennessee home of a friend, David…