State v. Gullett

TITUS, Judge.

Clifford Lee Gullett, defendant-appellant herein, and Henry Lee Belk 1 , were jointly tried and jury-convicted of two counts of rape. § 566.030, RSMo 1978. Defendant was sentenced to concurrent 50-year terms. Both defendants appealed.

On the night in question the victim, accompanied by her two-month old son, was driving towards her home in Steele, Missouri, when her automobile was overtaken and forced off the roadway by another car. The overtaking car stopped ahead of the victim’s automobile and, aided by the burning headlights on her vehicle, the victim could see the two men who…