Gerberding v. State

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted by the verdict of a jury of robbery in the first degree which occurred November 29, 1951, and his sentence was by the jury assessed at life imprisonment. His conviction was affirmed by this court, State v. Gerberding, Mo., 272 S.W.2d 230. Appellant now seeks relief under Supreme Court Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., to set aside and vacate his life sentence and have a new trial upon grounds (1) that he was “denied his constitutional right to counsel through the introduction during his original trial of evidence of a prior conviction which was void because…