State v. Thompson

STORCKMAN, Judge.

The appellant, Ulysses Simpson Grant Thompson, was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis of murder in the second degree and his punishment was assessed at twenty-five years’ imprisonment. He was sentenced in accordance with the verdict on November 17, 1948. He did not file a motion for new trial and no appeal was taken. He is now imprisoned in the Missouri State Penitentiary. This appeal is from the overruling of defendant’s motion to vacate and set aside the judgment and sentence, a proceeding filed in the trial court on May 1, 1956, pursuant…