Ransonette v. State

OPINION

BROWN, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for kidnapping for extortion under Article 1177a, Vernon’s Ann.P.C. Appellant and his brother Woodrow Ransonette were jointly tried before a jury which found them guilty and assessed punishment for each man at five thousand and five (5005) years in the Texas Department of Corrections. This Court affirmed the conviction of Woodrow Ransonette on April 30, 1975. Ransonette v. State, 522 S.W.2d 509, Appeal Dismissed, November 11,1975, 423 U.S. 941, 96 S.Ct. 350, 46 L.Ed.2d 274.

Mrs. Amanda Mayhew Dealey testified that she returned to…