State ex rel. Nixon v. Pennoyer

SULLIVAN, Presiding Judge.

This is an original proceeding in certio-rari to review the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus by the Circuit Court of St. Francois County. We reverse the decision of the circuit court granting habeas corpus and quash the record in the circuit court.

On April 13, 1983, David Allen Martin (Martin) pleaded guilty to assault first degree, sodomy, burglary first degree, armed criminal action, and two counts of felony forcible rape. Martin was sentenced to a concurrent ten year sentence for the assault first degree offense and one of the felony forcible rape offenses, a…