Goff v. State

Jim Goff was charged by indictment with kidnapping in the first degree, in violation of § 13A-6-43, Code of Alabama 1975. The jury found the appellant "guilty as charged in the indictment," and the trial judge sentenced him to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, as a habitual felony offender.

I

The appellant contends, in the first two issues raised in his brief, that the State failed to prove a prima facie case and that the trial court erred by refusing to grant his motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of the State's case-in-chief. Since these issues are, for all intents…