WORTHAM v. STATE

No. 7353.

689 P.2d 1133 (1984)

Floyd WORTHAM, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

October 26, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine S. Schleuss, Asst. Public Defender, and Dana Fabe, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Charles M. Merriner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before COATS and SINGLETON, JJ., and BURKE, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.


OPINION

COATS, Judge.

Floyd Wortham was convicted, in a jury trial, of kidnapping Yance Coleman, shooting him in the abdomen, and robbing him. Wortham was also convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Ralph Moody sentenced Wortham to sentences totalling fifty-three years. Wortham appeals his conviction and sentence to this court.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

At Wortham's trial Coleman testified that he and his "common law wife...

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