State v. Spencer

CLARK, Presiding Judge.

In this appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence for the offense of kidnapping for the purpose of facilitating commission of the felony of sodomy, § 565.110.-1(4), RSMo 1978, Spencer contends the evidence was insufficient for submission of the case. He bases the argument on the claim that no evidence proved him guilty of *434sodomy or an attempt to commit sodomy nor was he shown to have taken any substantial step, apart from the abduction, to accomplish the crime of sodomy. The point raises the broad question of what the state is required to prove when the element…