State v. Davis

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The defendant Davis was convicted of rape [§ 566.030, RSMo 1978] and of sodomy [§ 566.060, RSMo 1978] and was sentenced as a persistent sexual offender under § 558.018. The judgment imposed was a term of seventy years imprisonment on each count to be served concurrently and without probation or parole.

The appeal does not question the sufficiency of the evidence,1 but only the proce*303dures employed by the court to come to judgment.

The information formally charged rape, sodomy, and that the defendant was a persistent sexual offender in that he had been previously…