Legal Opinion
Jones v. State
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided May 16, 1989No. 55314PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARD, Judge.
Movant appeals from the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion after an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.
A jury convicted movant of stealing by deceit and assessed punishment at seven years’ imprisonment plus a fine. The court sentenced movant in accordance with the assessment fixing the fine at $3,300. We affirmed the conviction in State v. Jones, 738 S.W.2d 920 (Mo.App.1987). A statement of the facts can be found there. Id.
Movant filed a Rule 29.15 motion alleging trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate several potential defense witnesses. Two of these potential…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Sanders v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1987
- Richardson v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1986
- Armour v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1987
- Poole v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1983
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Elbert Whaley Jones v. Gary Jerrison, Parole Officer Cranston Mitchell, Board of Probation and Parole and the Attorney General of MissouriCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- State v. HendersonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1992
- State v. SmithMissouri Court of Appeals · 1993
- State v. SmithMissouri Court of Appeals · 1990
- McCauley v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1993
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