Pettway v. State

The appellants, Tracy Leon Pettway and Simon Marco Charley, were convicted of kidnapping and robbery, violations of §§13A-6-43, 13A-6-41, Ala. Code (1975). Appellant Pettway was also convicted of rape in the first degree, a violation of §13A-6-61. Appellant Pettway was sentenced to three life terms, those terms to run consecutively. Appellant Charley was sentenced to two life terms, his terms to run concurrently.

The state's evidence tended to show that on the morning of February 15, 1989, the victim, a school teacher, was kidnapped from the parking lot of the elementary school where she…