State v. White

PREWITT, Judge.

Following jury trial appellant Calvin White was convicted of sodomy, § 566.060, RSMo 1986, (since amended, see RSMo Supp.1993) and sentenced as a prior and persistent offender to 20 years’ imprisonment. Appellant appealed from the conviction and sentence. He also filed a Rule 29.15 motion seeking to vacate the judgment. Movant initially sought an evidentiary hearing on his motion but thereafter filed a pleading stating “mov-ant withdraws his request for an evidentiary hearing and submits this cause for ruling *625pursuant to Rule 29.15(i).” The trial court then made findings of…