State v. Warren

HENLEY, Judge.

Defendant was found guilty of forcible rape (Section 559.260) 1 by a jury in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis and sentenced by the court under the habitual criminal act (Section 556.280) to imprisonment for forty-five years. The judgment was affirmed on appeal. See: State v. Warren, Mo., 366 S.W.2d 311. He was represented by counsel of his own choice at the trial and on appeal.

Thereafter the defendant, pro se, filed a motion in the trial court pursuant to Rule 27.262 to vacate and set aside the above *607judgment and sentence. The motion was overruled without a hearing and…