State v. Mountjoy

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Defendant has appealed from an order of the circuit court, entered after an evi-dentiary hearing, overruling his motion pursuant to Criminal Rules 27.25 and 27.26, V.A.M.R., to set aside his plea of guilty to the charge of robbery in the first degree.

At the hearing on the motion a transcript of the proceedings at the time the plea of guilty was éntered was offered and received in evidence, and it is necessary that we relate what occurred at that time.

Defendant was represented by able counsel experienced in criminal trial work who-had been employed by his mother. His…