Taylor v. State

On October 8, 1982, appellant pleaded guilty to the Class B felony of sodomy and was sentenced to five years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. The victim was his eight-year-old stepdaughter.

Appellant was paroled on April 9, 1984, but thereafter, and while still on parole, he was charged and found guilty of deviate sexual assault upon a fourteen-year-old girl and sentenced to seven years. Appellant was also again charged with sodomy committed against his stepdaughter. For this offense he was sentenced as a persistent offender to fifty years without eligibility for probation or parole.

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