State v. Belcher

CRANDALL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Leotis Belcher, appeals from his judgment of conviction, after a jury trial, of abuse of a child. He was sentenced to imprisonment for three years. Defendant also appeals the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion after an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.

Defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, discloses that defendant decided to punish his eight-year-old stepson, J.I., for altering a grade on his report card. Defendant took J.I. into a bathroom, tied his ankles together and his…