CONEY v. STATE

No. 55561.

491 S.W.2d 501 (1973)

Ellis CONEY, Jr., Movant-Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

March 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Gilden, St. Louis, for movant-appellant.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Charles A. Blackmar, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


HOUSER, Commissioner.

In May, 1963 Ellis Coney, Jr., was convicted by a jury of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. In June, 1963 he pleaded guilty to charges of rape, and robbery in the first degree with a dangerous and deadly weapon. He was given life sentences on each of these pleas, the robbery sentence to run consecutively with the murder sentence and the rape sentence to run consecutively with the other two sentences. While serving the sentence...

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