CHASTAIN v. STATE

No. 58214.

803 S.W.2d 192 (1991)

Herbert A. CHASTAIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Two.

February 13, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosalynn Koch, Columbia, for appellant.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth L. Ziegler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


CRIST, Judge.

Appeal from the denial of a Rule 29.15 motion after an evidentiary hearing. The conviction sought to be vacated was for murder, for which the sentence was life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole for fifty years. We affirm.

Movant proffers his lawyer failed to investigate and question Officer Bittle as to information Bittle received on the involvement of another inmate, Randy Jordan, in the murder. Such investigation movant...

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