State v. Stevens

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

Defendant Terry Stevens was convicted by a Ripley County jury of committing sodomy on a ten-year-old boy. By reason of a previous similar conviction the defendant was charged under the Second Offender Act, and on the jury’s guilty verdict the trial judge sentenced the defendant to a 25-year prison term. We affirm.

Defendant’s trial was conducted and the jury verdict returned on November 22, 1974. On December 3,1974, defendant filed his motion for new trial. The motion was denied December 3, 1974, at which time the defendant was afforded allocution and sentence and…