State v. Sipe

PRITCHARD, Judge.

By the verdict of a jury appellant was convicted of the crime of kidnapping, § 565.110, RSMo 1978, and was sentenced by the trial court in accordance with the verdict to ten years imprisonment in the Division of Corrections.

A synopsis of the evidence, the sufficiency of which is not questioned, is this: On June 20,1980, Mary Sipe, who was then the wife of appellant, arrived at her place of work in North Kansas City at 7:55 a.m. As she entered the door, appellant and two other men grabbed her and forced her, re*179sisting and struggling, into an automobile which appellant drove…