PAXTON v. STATE

No. KCD 29346.

565 S.W.2d 750 (1978)

Carl W. PAXTON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied May 1, 1978.

Application to Transfer Denied June 15, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Hamilton Scott, Public Defender, William F. Bauer, Asst. Public Defender, Fifth Judicial Circuit, St. Joseph, for petitioner-appellant.

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Robert L. Presson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before SOMERVILLE, P. J., and DIXON and TURNAGE, JJ.


DIXON, Judge.

Appeal from a denial of a writ of error coram nobis to vacate an already completed two-year sentence for stealing. The petitioner pled guilty to the stealing charge in 1964. Petitioner is now serving a life sentence on an unrelated conviction. The trial court, after evidentiary hearing, denied the writ of error coram nobis.

The appeal asserts three grounds for reversal: first, that the information charging stealing was fatally defective; second...

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