State v. Phason

HENLEY, Judge.

Defendant was charged by indictment with rape of a female child under the age of sixteen years (Section 559.260) 1 and with ten prior felony convictions. Section 556.-280. A jury found him guilty, the trial judge determined that he had been convicted of prior felonies as charged, and he was sentenced by the court to imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term of twenty-five years.

Immediately after the jury returned its verdict and was discharged, the court assessed defendant’s punishment at imprisonment for fifty years. Thereafter, defendant timely…