Fuller v. State

Under the undisputed facts in this appeal from a conviction in the Criminal Court of Blount County for kidnapping, the defendant assaulted two young occupants of a parked motor vehicle on the 24th day of July, 1972, and forced them to accompany him and a young companion in the plaintiff in error’s automobile under the pretext that both of the latter were deputy sheriffs who suspected the victims of committing various imagined offenses. It is obvious from the bizarre behavior of the defendant that a kidnapping in the classical sense was not committed, but the facts do support all the necessary…