Morrow v. State

SIMEONE, Senior Judge.

This is an appeal from an order and judgment of the circuit court of the City of St. Louis, entered on December 5, 1988, denying movant James Lee Morrow’s motion to vacate judgment pursuant to Rule 27.26 (repealed, effective January 1, 1988).

On September 30, 1973, a Sunday, Paul Pittman, an attendant at a St. Louis service station, was robbed at gunpoint of his wallet and of the cash-on-hand at the station. Later, as this court said on direct appeal, curiously, Pittman received an envelope in the mail with no return address, containing his stolen wallet. The wallet…