State v. Thomas

KAROHL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Melvin Thomas appeals convictions by jury and sentences on charges of manslaughter, § 565.005 RSMo 1978, assault in the first degree, § 565.050 RSMo 1978, forcible rape, § 564.011 RSMo 1978, and two counts of robbery in the first degree, § 569.020 RSMo 1978. The jury found defendant not guilty of other charges of rape, sodomy, and two counts of robbery first degree. Defendant was sentenced in accord with the verdicts to consecutive sentences of ten, fifteen, twenty and ten years imprisonment on the above convictions. We affirm.

The state presented the…