Missouri Court of Appeals August 1, 2017, WD 78885 (State v. Ellis)

Thomas H. Newton, Judge

Mr. Edward Ellis appeals a Jackson County Circuit Court judgment convicting him of three counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and three corresponding counts of incest for which he received a 60-year prison sentence. He challenges the jury instructions as a matter of plain error. We affirm.

In February 2015, a grand jury indicted Mr.