State v. Williams

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from his convictions by a jury of stealing from the person without consent, rape, sodomy, and kidnapping and the resultant consecutive sentences of 7, 15, 7, and 15 years respectively. We affirm.

No challenge is made of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the convictions so only a brief statement of facts is necessary. The victim was grabbed from a street in the Laclede Landing area of St. Louis as she was walking to her automobile at night. She was thrown into the back seat of an automobile occupied by three men. Her head was covered and she was…