State v. King

SMITH, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction by a jury of attempted forcible sodomy and his sentence as a persistent sexual offender to thirty years without parole. He also appeals from the denial of his post-conviction Rule 29.15 motion. We affirm.

The victim, Kevin Moore, was a slightly built twenty year old with no prior criminal record who was charged with theft of fireworks and confined in the Jefferson County jail. Late at night he was requested by another inmate to go into cell-house four. That cell was occupied by defendant and several of his friends. All were physically larger…