State v. Perkins

Appellant (to whom we shall refer as defendant) was convicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County of the offense of rape. He has appealed from the judgment sentencing him, in accordance with the verdict, to the extreme penalty; but he has filed no brief. He is a negro, either 50 or 59 years of age (at the time of trial), and was charged as an habitual criminal under Secs. 4854, 4855, R. S. ’39 and Mo. R. S. A. Notwithstanding his formal admission of his several prior felony convictions, imprisonment thereunder, and subsequent discharges 1 the jury made no finding in its verdict on that…