State v. Evans

RENDLEN, Judge.

Consolidated appeals from defendant’s conviction for rape and the overruling of his Rule 29.15 motion.

Reviewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the verdict, the record discloses that defendant, in January, 1987, spent several nights at the home of his aunt and her six children. On one of those nights, he went upstairs to the bedroom of his nine-year old cousin, M.E., where he raped the little girl and afterward instructed her to take a shower and threatened physical harm if she spoke to anyone of the incident.

A few days later M.E. noticed a brown discharge in her…