Bowens v. State

WILLIAM H. CRANDALL, Jr., Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Herbert Bowens, appeals from the judgment denying his Rule 29.15 motion without an evidentiary hearing. We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.

A jury convicted defendant of two counts of rape, section 566.030, 1 one count of Mdnapping, section 565.110, and one count of deliberately creating a grave and unjustifiable risk of infecting another -with HIV, section 191.677.1(2). The trial court sentenced defendant to consecutive terms of life imprisonment for each rape conviction, thirty years for the kidnapping conviction and ten…