STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Respondent v. MICHAEL LEE HOLT

STATE OF MISSOURI, ) ) Plaintiff-Respondent, ) ) vs. ) No. SD32812 ) MICHAEL LEE HOLT, ) Filed: May 7, 2014 ) Defendant-Appellant. ) APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF LACLEDE COUNTY Honorable Kenneth M. Hayden, Circuit Judge AFFIRMED Michael Lee Holt (“Appellant”) was convicted of statutory rape in the first degree and statutory sodomy in the first degree against a child less than fourteen years of age. At the time of the crime, the victim was ten years old; by the time of the trial, the victim was sixteen years old. After the victim testified at the trial, she remained in the gallery holding…