State of Louisiana v. Jubbard Price

*231 We granted this application to determine whether guilty of simple kidnapping is a responsive verdict to a charge of second degree kidnapping. Finding that it is not enumerated among the legislatively authorized responsive verdicts in La. C.Cr.P. art. 814, and further that it is not a lesser and included offense in accordance with La. C.Cr.P. art. 815, we set aside defendant's convictions for simple kidnapping, and we remand to the trial court to enter a post-verdict judgment of acquittal on these charges.

Defendant was indicted with five counts of second degree kidnapping and three counts of…