McClellan v. State

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

Movant-defendant Ronald McClellan appeals the post-evidentiary-hearing denial of his Rule 27.26 motion.

In 1978 defendant pled guilty to second-degree murder by killing the victim with multiple blows of an ax. The trial court, Judge Murray Randall presiding, then sentenced defendant to 22 years in prison. Thereafter Judge Randall denied defendant’s Rule 27.26 motion and he has appealed.

Defendant’s point here is that he was of limited intelligence and had a hearing defect; that he did not understand he was pleading guilty to second-degree murder; that he believed instead…