State v. McDowell

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, Nicholas McDowell, appeals from his convictions, after a jury trial, for rape and sodomy. He was sentenced as a prior offender and a persistent sexual offender to imprisonment for two consecutive terms of 30 years. Defendant also appeals from the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion without an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.

Defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence shows that defendant raped and sodomized his fiance’s twelve year old daughter.

Defendant first claims that the trial court…