Brown v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

Robert Edward Brown appeals a Henry County jury’s verdict finding him guilty of the offense of kidnapping with bodily injury resulting from an incident that occurred at 3:00 a.m. in the Kangaroo convenience store on Highway 42 in McDonough, Georgia. A videotape caught 90 percent of the incident and is before this Court, as it was before the jury during trial.

The videotape and the testimony of the victim, store clerk Mary Jo Branham, show that Branham, who is approximately five feet two inches in height and twenty-one years old, was cleaning around the cola machine when Robert…