State v. Burrington

BARRETT, Commissioner.

On April 22, 1941, Arthur Burrington was convicted of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to IS years' imprisonment. On August 1, 1962, under rule 27.26, V.A.M.R. he filed a motion to vacate the sentence and judgment alleging as grounds that in his April 1941 trial his constitutional rights had been infringed in two respects:, (1) that he was denied the “effective assistance of counsel” in that his court appointed attorney, also one of his lawyers in this proceeding, was appointed to represent him on April 19, 1941, that “knowledge of such appointment did not come…