Supreme Court of Missouri January 17, 1984, 64911 (State v. Taylor)

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”

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arising out of an attack by the defendant.