State v. Whitley

CRIST, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his jury conviction for kidnapping, first degree robbery and armed criminal action. Defendant was sentenced as a prior and persistent offender to a term of fifteen years for kidnapping and a term of thirty years for first degree robbery, to run concurrently, and a term of five years for armed criminal action to commence at the end of the thirty-year sentence for a total of thirty-five years. We affirm.

This prosecution grew out of the forcible abduction of traveler Frank Mendiola from the St. Louis Greyhound Bus Station on December 11, 1985. While inside the…