State v. Smith

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The defendant Smith was convicted by a jury on counts of rape [§ 566.030, RSMo 1978], sodomy [§ 566.060] and first degree burglary [§ 569.160]. The defendant was sentenced to consecutive terms of fifty years, fifty years and fifteen years on the respective counts. The appeal contends error from the admission of evidence and the systematic exclusion of blacks from the ve-nire.

The evidence was that at about 9:00 p. m. a black man identified as the defendant came into the residence of the victim, TS, through the doorway from the basement, *234grabbed her and immediately…