STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Respondent v. RYAN N. EVANS

JEFFREY W. BATES, J.—OPINION AUTHOR

Ryan Evans (Defendant) was convicted of murder in the second degree and abuse of a child. See §§ 565.021, 568.060. 1 He was sentenced to concurrent terms of life imprisonment for abuse of a child and thirty years for murder in the second degree. On appeal, Defendant presents ten points of error. Finding no merit in any of his points, we affirm.

Defendant contests the sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions. “We consider the facts and all reasonable inferences derived therefrom in a light most favorable to the verdict, and we reject all contrary…