Brown v. State

BILLINGS, Judge.

Willie B. Brown, presently serving a 30-year sentence for first degree robbery, brought this Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., proceeding to vacate judgment and sentence alleging his waiver of trial by jury was involuntary and he was denied effective assistance of counsel. Following an evidentiary hearing the trial court denied relief. We affirm.

Appellant and another were charged with the strong-arm robbery of an 85-year-old widow at her neighborhood grocery store in Springfield. The elderly proprietor was brutally assaulted during the course of the crime.

Appellant waived his right to a…