State v. Chamberlain

TITUS, Judge.

Defendant was jury-convicted of first degree sexual assault (§ 566.040) 1 on his 15-year-old daughter, Faye, and in accordance with the verdict was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of seven years. Defendant appealed.

On Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1981, defendant, his wife and their children resided in Cardwell. Faye spent the day with a relative in Arbyrd but left near 6 p.m. and went to a Cardwell home where she was told to go home immediately because her younger sister was ill.

Defendant had spent part of Thanksgiving afternoon in a Cardwell bar. Upon being advised of his…