State v. Bascue, 54870
| Court | United States State Supreme Court of Missouri |
| Citation | 485 S.W.2d 35 |
| Docket Number | No. 54870,No. 2,54870,2 |
| Parties | STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Larry Michael BASCUE, Appellant |
| Decision Date | 09 October 1972 |
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v.
Larry Michael BASCUE, Appellant.
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John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Y. Michael O'Neal, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.
Lloyd F. Dieckman, Pohlmann & Dieckman, Kansas City, for appellant.
HOUSER, Commissioner.
Larry Michael Bescue, charged with statutory rape of his 14-year-old stepdaughter, waived a jury, submitted his case to the court sitting without a jury and was found guilty. Sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment, Bascue has appealed. This Court has jurisdiction under Section 3 of Article V, Constitution of Missouri, 1945, V.A.M.S., as provided by that section prior to the amendment adopted at the special election of August 4, 1970, since the notice of appeal was filed prior to January 1, 1972. Article V, § 31.
Appellant's first point is that the court erred in admitting testimony of prior acts of misconduct. The testimony objected to is that of prosecutrix that on occasions when her mother was not present at the home, beginning when prosecutrix was 9 years of age, appellant started 'messing around' with her, that is, with both of them undressed and in the bedroom appellant, with his hand, would play with her private parts--with 'that which was between (her) legs.' Also he would use his private part--'the thing between his legs'--by putting it between her legs and against her privates and 'just sort of move it back and forth,' without putting it inside her. Later, after she attained age 12, he would have intercourse with her by putting his private part into hers, actually penetrating her body. This occurred once or twice a week. The specific charge was that of carnally knowing and abusing the girl on June 22, 1968. Appellant argues that the acts of 'messing around' and playing with her private parts are not so interrelated with the charge of rape as to come within the exception to the general rule of inadmissibility of other crimes, under which exception evidence of other offenses
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is admissible when their proof may tend to establish motive or intent, or a common scheme or plan embracing the commission of separate similar offenses so interrelated to each other that proof of one tends to prove the other. Appellant maintains that the prior acts in question constitute nothing more than child molestation, are not reasonably related to the charge of statutory rape on June 22, 1968, and are remote in point of time; that by their admission in evidence appellant was placed on trial for acts with which he was not charged, in violation of his rights under state and federal constitutional provisions, and that his alibi defense was thereby nullified under the ruling is...To continue reading
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