State v. Torrence

WASSERSTROM, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged by information in the Circuit Court oof Jackson County, Missouri, with the crimes of rape and sodomy. He was tried before a jury and was found guilty on both counts. Having been charged as a Second Offender, the trial court sentenced him to twenty-five years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for each crime, the sentences to run concurrently. This appeal followed.

From the evidence presented at trial, the jury could have found beyond a reasonable; doubt that in the early afternoon of June 10, 1973, the prosecutrix was driving an…