Corn v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

After Fayette County Jail inmates John Purcell and William P. Corn carried out an armed takeover of the jail, a jury found Corn guilty of five counts of kidnapping, a class A felony, 1 two counts of criminal confinement as a class B felony, 2 one count of criminal confinement as a class D felony, id., and three counts of criminal recklessness as a class D felony. The court sentenced him to concurrent 50-year prison terms for each kidnapping conviction and added thirty years to each because of a habitual offender finding. 3 The total 80-year sentence is to run…