State v. Paulson

ROBERT S. BARNEY, Judge.

Leroy E. Paulson (“Appellant”) was convicted following a bench trial of one count of statutory rape, a violation of section 566.032, and one count of statutory sodomy, a violation of section 566.062. 1 Appellant was sentenced to thirty years in the Missouri Department of Corrections on each count with the sentences to run concurrently.

Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the trial court’s verdict, State v. Bewley, 68 S.W.3d 613, 615 (Mo.App.2002), the record reveals that E.M., who was twelve years old at the time of trial, had resided in a home in…