STATE v. TAYLOR

No. 64911.

663 S.W.2d 235 (1984)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Stanley TAYLOR, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

January 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry B. Robertson, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Theodore A. Bruce, John Morris, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, for plaintiff-respondent.


GUNN, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of forcible rape in violation of § 566.030, RSMo Supp.1982 (effective 1980). During the course of trial, a psychiatrist testifying for the state was permitted to venture an opinion that the prosecutrix bore the marks of a condition known as "rape trauma syndrome"1 arising out of an attack by the defendant. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District,

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