State v. Hicks

KAROHL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Everlee Hicks appeals convictions by jury for first degree burglary, § 569.160 RSMo 1978, and sodomy, § 566.-060 RSMo Cum.Supp.1982. Hicks was sentenced as a prior offender to two consecutive fifteen year terms of imprisonment.

Defendant Hicks does not contest the sufficiency of the evidence. In the early morning of November 2, 1984, Sujada Pittman was in the bathroom of her apartment in Normandy, Missouri. She heard noises on her patio and thought someone was trying to break in, so she called the police and then a neighbor for help. The intruder entered her…