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Moore v. State

Evidence that defendant willingly accompanied his accomplices when they went "creeping" at the victims' hotels supported his convictions as a party to their crimes.

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In Indictment Number 97-00648, Markett Jerod Moore, Corey Lewis Coleman, and Jabaar Myles were jointly charged with burglary, kidnapping with bodily injury, and armed robbery. Indictment Number 97-00852 charged the same three with an additional count of burglary, two counts of kidnapping with bodily injury, and two counts of armed robbery. The trial court granted the State’s motion to consolidate the offenses charged in the separate indictments for trial, and Moore and Coleman were jointly tried before a jury. Myles pled guilty to all charges except that kidnapping with bodily injury was reduced to simple kidnapping and testified for the State. Moore was found guilty on all counts. His motion for new trial as amended was denied and this appeal followed. In six enumerations of error, Moore challenges i the introduction of hearsay, ii and iii the denial of his motions for directed verdicts, iv the joinder of the offenses for trial, v undue emphasis in the charge on parties to a crime, and vi the failure of the court to charge that kidnapping with injury is a specific intent crime. We affirm.

1. The second and third enumerations urge the general grounds.1 Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdicts, the evidence revealed the following:

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