Hines v. State

KENNEDY, Judge.

Defendant (as we shall call the movant) by this Rule 27.26 motion seeks relief from a 1980 armed robbery, § 569.020, RSMo 1978, conviction, in which he was shown to have robbed a jewelry store of merchandise worth more than $57,000. The conviction was affirmed upon direct appeal to this court, State v. Hines, 645 S.W.2d 88 (Mo.App.1982).

The trial court after an evidentiary hearing overruled the Rule 27.26 motion. Defendant appeals.

The reason advanced for Rule 27.26 relief is ineffectiveness of counsel in three particulars which we take up in turn.

I

Defendant says first that…