State v. Ferguson

CRIST, Judge.

Appeal from jury convictions of rape and sodomy, for which Defendant was sentenced to consecutive terms of imprisonment of thirty years on each count, and from the subsequent denial of a Rule 29.15 motion. We affirm.the convictions of rape and sodomy, but remand for re-sentencing. The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the convictions is not in dispute, and therefore a brief statement of the facts will suffice.

At about 1:45 a.m. on July 9, 1987, Defendant left a nightclub in Poynor, Missouri. When the bartender headed home about 3 a.m., he saw Defendant’s car upside down in a…