State v. Engel

HANNA, Judge.

The defendant was charged and found guilty by a jury on two counts of kidnapping and on two counts of armed criminal action. The court sentenced the defendant in accordance with the jury recommendation of thirty years each for kidnapping and fifteen years each for armed criminal action, the sentences to run consecutive to each other.

The defendant filed his post-conviction Rule 29.15 motion and following an eviden-tiary hearing, the motion was denied. The appeals have been consolidated and the sufficiency of the evidence is not in dispute.

In February 1984, Charles Ford returned to…