Brown v. State

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

This appeal comes from denial of a Rule 27.26 motion to vacate judgment and sentences of two consecutive terms of fifteen years on counts of rape and sodomy. The direct appeal from the convictions was upheld by this court in State v. Brown, 525 S.W.2d 565 (Mo.App.1975) but the cause was remanded for resentence under the principle of State v. Baker, 524 S.W.2d 122 (Mo.banc 1975) that whether sentences for convictions of multiple offenses shall be made to run consecutively or concurrently is a matter of discretion of the trial court and not of mandatory rule. On…