STATE v. DAVIS

No. 38001.

557 S.W.2d 41 (1977)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. John Steven DAVIS, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, Division One.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied October 11, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard, Singer & Meehan, Raymond Howard, Jr., St. Louis, for appellant.

William F. Arnet, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Brendan Ryan, Circuit Atty., Nels C. Moss, Jr. Asst. Circuit Atty., St. Louis, for respondent.


SMITH, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction by a jury of rape and the resulting six year sentence. We affirm.

Defendant has raised five points on appeal including insufficiency of the evidence. We examine that question first. The only evidence presented by the State on the issue of the crime itself and defendant's involvement was from the prosecutrix. We state at the outset that her testimony was not so inherently contradictory and unbelievable as...

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