State v. Griffin

MORGAN, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of the crime of sodomy in violation of § 563.230, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S., and assessed punishment at fifteen years confinement. Notice of appeal was filed on September 8, 1971, and this court has jurisdiction.

The events in question took place on July 21, 1970, while defendant and others were temporarily confined in the police holdover at the Central Police Station in St. Louis. Three of the young men so confined were named Gerber, Schneider and Williams. Others, in addition to defendant Griffin, were named Baxter, Kyles and Payne. Another, named Henry,…