State v. Hamilton

WESTHUES, Judge.

On February 20, 1957, a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, found the defendant Hamilton guilty on a charge of sodomy and assessed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years. After his motion for new trial was overruled and defendant was sentenced, he appealed to this court.

The prosecuting witness, a boy 15 years of age, testified that on October 12, 1956, at about 10:30 p. m., he and the defendant met near Pine and Sixth Streets; that he did not know the defendant prior to this time. He further testified that the…