State v. Hankins

GREENE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Ronnie Lee Hankins was jury-tried, convicted, and sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for the crime of rape for violation of § 566.030.1(2), RSMo 1978, which provides that a person commits the crime of rape if he has sexual intercourse with another party to whom he is not married who is less than 14 years old. This appeal followed. We affirm.

The victim of the rape was a 10-year-old female child. She was living in a home occupied by defendant, his two sons (apparently by a previous marriage), the little girl’s mother, and five brothers and sisters of the…