State v. Shields

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal from denial, after evidentiary hearing, of motion under Criminal Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R.

In 1964, Charles Cecil Shields was convicted, upon a trial by jury in the St. Louis Circuit Court, of robbery in the first degree with a dangerous and deadly weapon. Sentence, under the Second Offender Act, was 40 years’ imprisonment. The conviction was affirmed on appeal. State v. Shields, Mo.Sup., 391 S.W.2d 909.

A motion to vacate under Rule 27.26 was filed. An evidentiary hearing was held at which Shields testified. Robert Krenning, also convicted on a plea of guilty for…