STATE v. GREEN

No. KCD 28632.

549 S.W.2d 644 (1977)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Thomas T. GREEN, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

April 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Larson, Public Defender, Lee M. Nation, Asst. Public Defender, Kansas City, for appellant.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Philip M. Koppe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before SHANGLER, P. J., and WELBORN and HIGGINS, Special Judges.


SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was convicted of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. On this appeal he contends that the argument of the prosecutor was a direct reference to his failure to testify and so the conviction should be reversed.

The evidence bears somewhat on the contention. The victim [L. F.] was asleep in the early morning in her bedroom on the second floor of the home she then shared with her sister [C. F.] and her brother [T. F...

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