State v. Ellis

Mr. Edward Ellis appeals a Jackson County Circuit Court judgment convicting him of three counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and three corresponding counts of incest for which he received a 60-year prison sentence. He challenges the jury instructions as a matter of plain error. We affirm.

In February 2015, a grand jury indicted Mr. Ellis on three counts of first-degree statutory sodomy (counts I, III, V), three counts of incest (counts II, IV, VI), one count of first-degree child molestation (count VII), three counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child (counts VIII-X), and…