State v. Culbertson

SMART, Presiding Judge.

Gary Culbertson was convicted, after a jury trial, of four counts of statutory sodomy, in the first degree, § 566.062, RSMo 1994. 1 He was sentenced as a prior offender to three terms of fifty years’ imprisonment and one term of life imprisonment, to run consecutively. Culbertson appeals his conviction of Count I, claiming that the trial court erred in denying his motions for acquittal because the State’s evidence, without reference to his confession, was insufficient to convince a rational trier of fact beyond a reasonable doubt that he had committed the offense of…