State v. Stewart

PRITCHARD, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was by the verdict of a jury convicted of kidnapping a Class B felony charged (Count I) under § 565.110 RSMo 1978, and of rape, also a Class B felony charged (Count II) under § 566.030, RSMo 1978. The jury fixed the punishment at fifteen years imprisonment on each charge. The trial court, upon its finding that appellant was a persistent offender, sentenced him to fifteen years on Count I and thirty years on Count II, to run concurrently but consecutively to a previous sentence imposed in Jackson County, Missouri.

The first contention advanced by appellant…