State v. Blue

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.:

Kenneth Blue was convicted by a jury of aggravated sodomy, K.S.A. 21-3506(o), and rape, K.S.A. 21-3502(l)(a). He was sentenced to concurrent terms of not less than 6 years nor more than life, and not less than 4 nor more than 20 years. He appeals, contending that the trial court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal; that K.S.A. 60-447a is violative of his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation and cross-examination; and that the trial court erred in failing to instruct on the lesser included crimes of sodomy and…