Murrain v. State

PRITCHARD, Judge.

In this Rule 27.26 proceedings, appellant sought to have vacated his judgment of conviction and sentence to 50 years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections, entered upon his plea of guilty to a charge of murder in the second degree entered on May 16, 1984.

Appellant was first charged by information filed January 10, 1984, with capital murder; murder in the first degree (both alleged to have arisen by the killing of Trennouth Eugene Standley by shooting him on October 23, 1983); burglary; and armed criminal action. On May 16, 1984, apparently as a result of a plea…