State v. Atkinson

HOLMAN, Commissioner.

Defendant, Roscoe Atkinson, was charged by indictment with committing the “detestable and abominable crime against nature” with a certain named “minor boy of the age of IS years” by inserting his sexual organ into the mouth of said boy. This is made an offense by the provisions of Section 563.230 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S. A jury found the defendant guilty of the offense charged (sodomy) and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years. From the ensuing judgment and sentence he has appealed.

In this court the defendant contends that the trial court erred…