Wagoner v. State

JEFFREY W. BATES, Chief Judge.

Richard A. Wagoner (Wagoner) appeals from an order denying his amended Rule 24.035 motion to set aside or vacate his judgment and sentence for child molestation in the first degree. See § 566.067. 1 The motion alleged, inter alia, that Wagoner’s guilty plea was involuntary because: (1) plea counsel was ineffective for failing to contact a witness who would have refuted the account of events given by the child victim and her mother; and (2) the record contained an insufficient factual basis to establish the mental element required to commit the crime of child…