State v. Williams

RENDLEN, Judge.

Convicted of forcible rape ’(§ 566.030, RSMo Supp. 1984 1) and attempted forcible sodomy, (§ 564.011, and §'566.060, RSMo Supp.1984),'defendant was sentenced both as a persistent sexual offender (§ 558.018, RSMo Supp.1984) and as a prior and persistent offender (§§ 558.016 and 557.036.4, RSMo Supp.1984) to concurrent fifty year terms of imprisonment without parole, on each count.

In this appeal no challenge is made to the sufficiency of the evidence nor the sentencing procedure employed by the court. Instead appellant attacks the persistent sexual offender statute, § 558.018, as…