State v. Booker

RENDLEN, Judge.

James W. Booker appeals his conviction of rape, § 559.2601 and sentence of life imprisonment under the second offender act, § 556.280, the court having considered his prior convictions of burglary second degree, stealing and rape.

Defendant assigns as error: (1) his prior acquittal of burglary first degree and robbery first degree charges arising from the same transaction constitutes a bar to this trial for rape under the doctrine of collateral estoppel; (2) defendant’s acquittal of the burglary and robbery worked to preclude evidence of those crimes and erroneous admission of…