Laster v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Appellant, Harold James Laster, appeals his conviction for kidnapping, theft by taking, armed robbery and escape.

After closing the Big Star Grocery, the night manager entered his automobile and thereafter was forced at gunpoint by appellant to drive around the area. The manager was forced to stop the car, and a co-accomplice of appellant got in the front seat. Subsequently, the manager was forced to return and re-enter the grocery store and to open the safe. The perpetrators took about $5,000 from the safe, and departed the area in the manager’s car. Held:

1. Appellant asserts…