STATE v. BURRINGTON

No. 49850.

371 S.W.2d 319 (1963)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Arthur BURRINGTON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

October 14, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richart, Titus & Martin, Joplin, for appellant.

Thomas F. Eagleton, Atty. Gen., John C. Baumann, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

On April 22, 1941, Arthur Burrington was convicted of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. On August 1, 1962, under rule 27.26, V.A.M.R. he filed a motion to vacate the sentence and judgment alleging as grounds that in his April 1941 trial his constitutional rights had been infringed in two respects: (1) that he was denied the "effective assistance of counsel" in that his court appointed attorney, also one of...

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