Watkins v. State

FLANIGAN, Chief Judge.

This is a second appeal by movant from the trial court’s denial of his Rule 27.261 motion to set aside a judgment and 20-year sentence for assault in the first degree, § 565.050, RSMo Cum.Supp.1984. The conviction, a result of trial by jury, was affirmed on direct appeal. State v. Watkins, 724 S.W.2d 674 (Mo.App.1987). The instant motion, actually a second amended motion, was later filed and denied after evidentiary hearing. Movant appealed from that ruling, and this court affirmed the trial court’s denial except with respect to two issues. On those issues the cause was…