STATE v. STAMPS

No. 37172.

569 S.W.2d 762 (1978)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Willie STAMPS, Defendant-Appellant.

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

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied July 17, 1978.

Application to Transfer Denied September 12, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shaw, Howlett & Schwartz, Clayton, for defendant-appellant.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Paul Robert Otto, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for plaintiff-respondent.


GUNN, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted of forcible rape and sentenced by the trial court under the Second Offender Act to life imprisonment. On appeal, defendant raises the following points of alleged trial court error: (1) admitting the testimony of a state's witness regarding an unrelated incident near the scene of the crime before it occurred; (2) overruling defendant's motion for acquittal at the close of the State's case; (3) denying a request for mistrial...

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