STATE v. YOUNG

KCD 26119.

488 S.W.2d 221 (1972)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Sylvester YOUNG, Jr., Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

December 4, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pierce & Associates, Kansas City, John Cosgrove, Kansas City, of counsel, for appellant.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., C. Michael O'Neal, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before SHANGLER, C. J., PRITCHARD, and WASSERSTROM, J., and J. DONALD MURPHY, Special Judge.


PRITCHARD, Judge.

Appellant filed his motion under Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., to vacate and set aside sentences imposed upon him upon two pleas of guilty to robbery in the first degree on February 20, 1962. The grounds for relief stated, and which are here presented, are that in the pleas of guilty appellant was denied effective assistance of counsel, and that the pleas "were coerced by the urging of his counsel, who said that he could be given a sentence of one hundred...

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