State v. Johnson

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

The State charged defendant Rayfield Johnson by Count I with first degree burglary and by Count II with rape. The jury found him guilty of both crimes and the court sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment for burglary and twenty-five years for rape.

On appeal defendant challenges the sufficiency of the indictment and the evidence, the submission of two offenses at a single trial, and the trial court’s failure to give MAI-CR 2.70 on separate consideration of evidence of each crime. These contentions in turn.

In related points concerning the first degree burglary…