Lewis v. State

EDWIN H. SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Gary S. Lewis appeals from the order of the circuit court denying his Rule 29.151 *141motion for post-conviction relief after an evidentiary hearing. He was jury-convicted, as a prior and persistent offender, §§ 557.036, RSMo Supp.1996, 558.016, 558.019,2 in the Circuit Court of Cooper County of one count of robbery in the first degree, § 569.020.1(8), and one count of kidnapping, § 565.110, for which he was sentenced to concurrent terms of twenty years imprisonment in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

In his sole point on appeal, the appellant claims that the…