Watson v. State

CRIST, Judge.

Appeal from a denial of a Rule 27.26 motion after an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.

On October 15, 1980, movant pled guilty to three counts of first degree robbery. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of ten years imprisonment on each count.

The record of the plea and sentence hearing clearly shows movant voluntarily and understandingly entered his plea of guilty to the three counts of robbery. Carpenter v. State, 479 S.W.2d 466, 469 (Mo.1972).

However at the Rule 27.26 evidentiary hearing, defendant changed his story. He said he lied at the advice of his appointed counsel at the…