Cochrell v. Wyrick

MEMORANDUM OPINION

REGAN, District Judge.

This petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleges as the sole ground for relief a claim of ineffective representation of counsel.

Petitioner was convicted in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, upon trial to a jury of the crime of rape and was thereafter, on March 10, 1972, sentenced under the Missouri Second Offender Act to a term *659of 35 years imprisonment. The conviction was affirmed on appeal. State v. Cochrell, 492 S.W.2d 22 (Mo.App.1972). Subsequently, petitioner filed a motion under Missouri Supreme Court Rule 27.26 to vacate the judgment…