State v. Edwards

PREWITT, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of sexual abuse in the first degree. § 566.100.1(2), RSMo 1978. He was thereafter sentenced as a persistent offender to ten years’ imprisonment. Defendant was charged with subjecting a five-year-old girl to “sexual contact”. “Sexual contact” is defined in § 566.010.1(3), RSMo 1978, as “any touching of the genitals or anus of any person, or the breast of any female person, or any such touching through the clothing, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire of any person.”

For his first point defendant contends that the trial court erred…