State v. Boyet

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

A jury found defendant John Boyet guilty of the Class A felony of rape by threatening the victim with a deadly weapon. Section 566.030 RSMo. 1968. Verdict and judgment fixed punishment at the minimum 10 year imprisonment. Section 558.-011, subd. 1(1). Defendant has appealed.

The victim testified: Defendant was a friend of her husband and the two men came by her rural home. The husband said he had to go to work, and the two men left. Soon, defendant walked into the home without knocking. Defendant embraced her but she repulsed him; he then came up behind her, held a knife…