State v. Laney

HOLMAN, Judge.

Defendant was charged with the offense of forcible rape. See § 559.260, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S. Upon trial the jury found him guilty and assessed his punishment at imprisonment for a term of 60 years. Defendant has appealed. We have jurisdiction because the appeal involves a felony conviction, and was taken prior to January 1, 1972, the effective date of new Art. V, § 3, Mo.Const., V.A.M.S. We affirm.

The defendant does not question the sufficiency of the evidence and hence we need not state the evidence in detail. Prosecu-trix, age 57, was employed as a cashier on the “Steamer…