State of Missouri, Plaintiff/Respondent v. Hermes Mendez

Introduction

Hermes Mendez (Appellant) appeals from the trial court’s judgment entered upon a jury verdict convicting him of forcible sodomy arid- felonious restraint and sentencing him to a total of twelve years in prison. We affirm and remand for correction of clerical error. r !

Factual and Procedural Background

Twenty-year-old Victim and twenty-five-year-old Appellant were married with a one-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter at the time of the events leading up to the charges against Appellant for second-degree domestic assault, forcible sodomy, and felonious restraint.…