Pippenger v. State

SHRUM, Judge.

Movant 1 pled guilty to a charge of failure to appear. He received a 5-year sentence to run concurrently to a 20-year sentence on a conviction for rape. 2 Movant now appeals from an order denying post-conviction relief under former Rule 27.26 3 on his failure to appear conviction.

Movant’s motion was originally filed pro se December 28, 1984. His initial grounds for seeking relief were that: (a) the guilty plea was involuntary because it was an “equivocal plea”; (b) movant was misad-vised and misled concerning service of the additional consecutive sentence; and (c) a conviction…