Fairchild v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

The appellant, Robert Lee Fairchild, was charged and convicted of rape and kidnapping. Having been convicted previously of four or more felonies, he was sentenced as a habitual offender to a term of forty years on each offense, the sentences to be served concurrently. Fairchild’s only contention on appeal is that there was insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction of kidnapping. We disagree.

On February 10, 1990, Fairchild approached the victim, Jeffery Beatty, in the vicinity of the bus station and invited Beatty to his house, where for some two hours they ate,…