State v. Pope

KENNEDY, Judge.

Defendant Earl Pope was convicted by a jury of two counts of sodomy respectively of two females to whom he was not married and who were under 14 years of age, § 566.060.3, RSMo Supp.1984. He was sentenced to nine years and eight years imprisonment respectively, to be served consecutively. He appeals.

His three points of trial error, alleged to have been committed with respect to each count, are these: That the testimony of the pathics was inherently so self-contradictory and internally inconsistent that it would not support the convictions without corroboration; that error was…