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STATE v. SCOTT

No. 51839.

404 S.W.2d 699 (1966)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Chester SCOTT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

July 11, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., O. Hampton Stevens, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

William B. Morgan, Kennett, for appellant.

BARRETT, Commissioner.

After a hearing in September 1965 upon a motion under Criminal Rule 27.26, V.A. M.R. to vacate and set aside a 1949 judgment and sentence of life imprisonment for murder in the first degree, the court entered an order overruling the motion and the petitioner Chester Scott has appealed.

Chester and Odis Johnson were Arkansas woodchoppers, they had been working on Kroner's Island in Arkansas when, according to Chester, Odis "got in trouble...

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