Tucker v. State

HENRY I. EAGER, Special Commissioner.

This is an appeal from an order overruling a motion filed under Rule 27.26 V.A.M.R., to vacate a criminal conviction. Defendant was found guilty on October 11, 1967, of stealing over $50, and a sentence of five years was imposed. The evidence in the original trial was that he threatened the night engineer at a Springfield packing company with a pistol, locked him in a truck and, apparently with an accomplice, looted the safe of approximately $700. Defendant was represented at the trial by Mr. William Moon whom he had employed some two or three weeks before…