STATE v. AMERSON

No. 13012.

661 S.W.2d 852 (1983)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Rufus AMERSON, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Three.

December 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blair Buckley, Jr., Wesley D. Coleman, Caruthersville, for appellant.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Janet E. Papageorge, Kristie Green, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


FLANIGAN, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of sexual abuse in the first degree, § 566.100.1(2),1 and the trial court imposed a four-year sentence. Defendant appeals.

Defendant asserts that the trial court erred in permitting the state, on the day of the trial, to amend the information so as to change the offense charged from rape, § 566.030, to sexual abuse in the first degree, § 566.100.1(2). The information...

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