Davis v. State

OPINION

BRYNER, Chief Judge.

Appellant, Randy G. Davis, was convicted following a jury trial in Fairbanks of kidnap and rape. He was sentenced to serve twenty years for the kidnapping and fifteen years for the rape; the sentences were to run concurrently. Davis appeals from his conviction and sentences.

Davis first contends that the superior court improperly denied his motion for judgment of acquittal as to the kidnapping charge. 1 This motion was based on the argument that the prosecution failed to produce sufficient evidence of an abduction by Davis and, further, that even assuming adequate…