State v. Smith

SIMEONE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Paul Michael Smith, was found guilty of the offense of sodomy and sentenced under the second offender act to six years in the department of corrections. §§ 563.230, 556.280, RSMo 1969; State v. Crawford, 478 S.W.2d 314 (Mo.1972). The cause was tried to the court, the defendant having waived a jury.

There is no need to detail the sordid facts in the record, since the appellant does not raise any issue as to the sufficiency of the evidence. Suffice it to say that the evidence shows that the appellant committed an act of sodomy per os upon a young…