
    STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff/Respondent, v. Jeremiah FLOYD, Defendant/Appellant.
    No. 70743.
    Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division One.
    June 10, 1997.
    Robert E. Steele, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, St. Louis, for defendant/appellant.
    Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, Lisa A. Fischer, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, for plaintiff/respondent.
    Before DOWD, P.J., and REINHARD and GARY M. GAERTNER, JJ.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM.

Defendant appeals after his conviction by a jury of forcible rape, § 566.030, RSMo 1994. The court sentenced him as a persistent offender to a prison term of twenty-five years. We affirm. We have reviewed the record and find the claims of error to be without merit. An opinion would have no prece-dential value nor serve any jurisprudential purpose. The parties have been furnished with a memorandum for their information only, setting forth the reasons for this order pursuant to Rule 30.26(b).  