Stephens v. State

KENNEDY, Judge.

We affirm the trial court’s judgment denying the 27.26 motion of Kenneth J. Stephens.

Defendant on September 1, 1977, following an earlier guilty plea, was sentenced by the Circuit Court of Lafayette County to two 20-year terms of imprisonment on two counts of armed robbery respectively. The terms were to be served concurrently with each other, but under § 222.020, RSMo 1969, they were required to be served consecutively to a sentence, of which six years remained, which defendant was under at the time of the robberies. Defendant at the time of the robberies was an escapee from…