State v. Young

STEPHAN, Judge.

Defendant, Bruce Young, was charged with the Class B felonies of rape and sodomy, and was indicted by a grand jury on March 12, 1988. On August 3, 1988, the State filed an information in lieu of indictment changing the charge in Count I to attempted rape, a Class C felony. Defendant was found guilty of attempted rape on August 5, 1988. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on the sodomy charge. Defendant was sentenced to one year in the St. Louis County Jail.

The victim, a nine year old girl, was in Bellefontaine Park on a Saturday afternoon in January 1988. She began to play…