State v. Harper

HOLSTEIN, Chief Judge.

Defendant Kenneth Lee Harper was convicted of two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree, a class D felony. § 566.100. 1 The trial court found him to be a prior offender. § 558.016.2. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of three and one-half years on each count. § 558.011.1(4). Defendant raises three points on appeal.

In the first point defendant claims the state failed to prove venue on one count. The state proved two acts of sexual abuse occurred in 1986 against a ten-year old female victim. One act took place in the woods near the home where the victim and…