MISSOURI
Lake News Online
Posted May. 21, 2014
Morgan County
The jury trial of a California, Mo. man charged with multiple counts related to child sexual abuse has been rescheduled again.
Travis Ray Smith, 44, was scheduled to go to trial in Moniteau County on June 2, 2014 after the trial was first continued in late 2013.
In a pre-trial conference May 16 for the June trial, Smith’s trial date was reset to begin Dec. 1, 2014 with the pre-trial conference scheduled for Nov. 14.
Smith’s defense attorney, Shane Farrow of Jefferson City, was granted the continuance by Judge Kenneth Hayden over the objection of Moniteau County Prosecuting Attorney Shayne Healea.
In September 2012, Smith was arrested by the Missouri State Highway Patrol on charges of forcible rape, sexual abuse and two counts of statutory rape in the second degree in incidents alleged to have taken place in 1998 and 1999. He was also then charged in Moniteau County Circuit Court with statutory rape in the second degree and statutory sodomy in the second degree related to incidents alleged to have occurred in 2005.
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