State v. Mayfield

JAMES RUDDY, Special Judge.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of rape § 559.260 RSMo 1969 and sentenced to fifteen years with the Department of Corrections. He appeals.

The following facts most favorable to the verdict were presented at trial. The victim, H. G., age 27, was asleep in her bed with her eighteen month old child early in the morning of August 7, 1975. She was married but she and her husband were separated. Her four other children were asleep in another room. Between four and four-thirty a.m. defendant entered her bedroom by standing on a trash can and crawling through an open…