Wescott v. State

NUGENT, Judge.

Movant James William Wescott (hereinafter “defendant”) claims that the hearing court clearly erred in denying his Rule 27.26 motion to vacate his conviction and sentence for forcible rape, § 566.030. 1 He argues that his guilty plea was not voluntarily, knowingly and willingly made, but instead was entered involuntarily due to ineffective assistance of counsel. In his second point, defendant argues that his conviction is a nullity because the trial court had no jurisdiction to accept this guilty plea as the information was not sufficient to charge the class A felony of…