State v. Brown

BARRETT, Commissioner.

A jury found James Byron Brown guilty of sodomy, he had a prior felony conviction of rape and the court therefore fixed his punishment at thirty-five years’ imprisonment. RSMo 1969, § 563.230, V.A.M.S. The fact of a submissible case is not questioned and so it is sufficient for the purposes of this opinion to say that after an entry into an apartment by a ruse the defendant at gunpoint subjected Sallye, a TWA hostess, to at least two acts of sodomy. The record of his trial reveals that he was ably represented by vigilant counsel and upon this direct appeal he is…