COWANS v. STATE

No. WD 34018.

656 S.W.2d 803 (1983)

Homer COWANS, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

August 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Armin Rust, Regional Public Defender, Lexington, for appellant.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., William K. Haas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before TURNAGE, P.J., and PRITCHARD and KENNEDY, JJ.


PRITCHARD, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of Statutory Rape, Section 566.030, RSMo 1978, by the verdict of a jury, and was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment as a persistent offender. He seeks to vacate that conviction under Rule 27.26. After the public defender was appointed, and on June 14, 1982, appellant's counsel filed an amended motion supplementing appellant's pro se motion in which he alleged that his counsel was ineffective "in that movant was severed from...

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