People v. Brown

Opinion

SULLIVAN, J.

A jury found Bedford Alvis Brown guilty of one count of kidnaping (Pen. Code, § 207), 1 one count of battery (§ 242), one count of petty theft (§§ 484, 488) and two counts of trespassing (§ 602, subd. (/)). The court struck one of the four prior felony convictions charged in the information and sentenced defendant on the kidnaping conviction to state prison for the term prescribed by law. 2 Although defendant has appealed from the whole of the judgment (§ 1237, subd. 1) he attacks only his conviction on the kidnaping count.

The events culminating in the charges against…