State v. Tringl

CARL R. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from his convictions in St. Louis County Circuit Court for rape and sodomy. He was sentenced as a persistent offender to consecutive terms of twenty and eight years. We affirm.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not in dispute. On February 11, 1989 G.T., a ten year-old female, attended her mother’s wedding and reception. As G.T. walked towards the restrooms at the reception hall defendant grabbed her and pushed her into the men’s room. He knocked her to the floor, pulled her jeans down, then sodomized and raped her. G.T. recognized the…