Watkins v. State

CROW, Presiding Judge.

Leroy J. Watkins (“movant”) appeals from a judgment denying — after an eviden-tiary hearing — his second amended motion under Rule 27.261 to vacate his conviction of assault in the first degree, § 565.050, RSMo Cum.Supp.1984, for which he was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. The conviction, a result of trial by jury, was affirmed on direct appeal. State v. Watkins, 724 S.W.2d 674 (Mo.App.1987).

The first four of movant’s eight points relied on pertain to the prosecutor’s cross-examination of movant at the jury trial.

Movant presented himself as a witness in his…