YOUNG v. STATE

No. 53965.

438 S.W.2d 280 (1969)

Sterling Willis YOUNG, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

March 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel & Hetlage, St. Louis, for appellant.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Gene E. Voigts, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


STOCKARD, Commissioner.

On January 7, 1959, Sterling Willis Young appeared in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis with employed counsel, and by leave of court withdrew his former pleas of not guilty to three separate charges of rape and one charge of burglary in the first degree, and entered pleas of guilty. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in each of the rape cases, and to imprisonment for ten years in the burglary case.

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