State v. Couch

SATZ, Presiding Judge.

The state appeals the grant of defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal notwithstanding the verdict of the jury. We reverse and remand.

Defendant was charged with four counts of forcible sodomy, § 566.060, 1 three counts of armed criminal action, § 571.015, two counts of robbery in the first degree, § 569.020, and one count each of kidnap ping, § 565.110, sexual abuse in the first degree, § 566.100, and attempted forcible sodomy, § 566.060. These charges arose out of four separate attacks against four different victims. After conviction on nine of these twelve counts,…