State v. Houston

EDWIN H. SMITH, Chief Judge.

Jerry Houston appeals the judgment of his conviction, after a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Cole County, of statutory sodomy in the first degree, § 566.062. 1 He was sentenced, as a prior offender, § 558.016, to thirty years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

The appellant raises two points on appeal. In point I, he claims that the trial court plainly erred “in injecting itself in the proceedings numerous times to express its frustration and aggravation with [the appellant] and his cross-examination and in informing the jury of his incarceration”…