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Criminal Law : Statutory Sodomy – Child Molestation – Sufficiency Of Evidence
Stephanie Maniscalco//June 19, 2014//
Where a defendant who was convicted of statutory sodomy in the first degree argued that a trial court should have given an instruction on child molestation, the court’s instruction was appropriate because the evidence was not sufficient to conclude that the incident happened before August 28, 2000 when the conduct would have been child molestation and during the time period when the incident was proven to have occurred, the conduct constituted first-degree statutory sodomy.
Judgment is affirmed.
State v. Huffman (MLW No. 66533/Case No. ED100189 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Dowd Jr., J.) Appealed from circuit court, St. Louis City, David, J. (Amy E. Lowe for appellant) (Karen L. Kramer for respondent).
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