Lewis v. State

FLANIGAN, Presiding Judge.

Movant Joseph Lewis appeals from a denial, after evidentiary hearing, of his Rule 24.-0351 motion, seeking to vacate a judgment and sentence on a plea of guilty to forgery, a class C felony. Movant was sentenced to a term of three years’ imprisonment.

Movant’s sole point is that he was entitled to relief on his motion, and the trial court erred in ruling otherwise, because movant was denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel and his plea was thereby tainted, “in that movant relied on defense counsel’s representations that he would probably…