Goodwin v. State

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal from denial of relief in proceeding under Rule 27.26 V.A.M.R. to set aside judgment and sentence of life imprisonment, entered on plea of guilty to murder in the first degree.

On April 27, 1967, John Holmes, a service station attendant in Kansas City, attempted to resist three men who held him up and was shot to death, receiving six or seven bullet wounds. At around 1:00 A.M. on April 28, movant-appellant, Richard Keven Goodwin, then 17 years of age, appeared at Menorah Hospital, accompanied by his father. He received treatment for a gunshot wound of the wrist.…