State v. Reed

SOMERVILLE, Chief Judge.

An information was filed in the Circuit Court of Randolph County charging defendant with kidnapping Larry Calvin Hughes, Jr., on March 9,1978, in violation of Section 559.240, RSMo 1969. Defendant was found guilty by a Saline County jury on change of venue and his punishment was fixed at ten years confinement in the Missouri Department of Corrections. Judgment entered and sentence imposed accordingly.

The sufficiency of the evidence to support the guilty verdict stands unchallenged. Charges of error on appeal, two in number, are laid at the doorstep of the prosecuting…