Duisen v. State

*689HENLEY, Judge.

Appellant (hereinafter movant or defendant) was convicted in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis of first degree murder and sentenced to death in accordance with the verdict of a jury. He appealed from that conviction. The judgment was affirmed July 10, 1967, in State v. Duisen, Mo., 428 S.W.2d 169, and the date of execution set for August 25, 1967. Certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1968. See 390 U.S. 962, 88 S.Ct. 1063, 19 L.Ed.2d 1159. Thereafter, on May 9, 1968, movant filed in the trial court a motion to vacate and set aside…