Childress v. State

JAMES D. CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

Movant (hereafter “defendant”) appeals the denial of his Rule 27.26 motion. Background: In 1978 we affirmed defendant’s jury-tried conviction and 15-year sentence for first-degree robbery of Mary Bishop at knife-point. She was getting out of her car in a bank’s parking lot. When arrested, defendant carried stolen property. (State v. Childress, 576 S.W.2d 557, Mo.App.1978).

In its order denying the Rule 27.26 motion the court made specific findings trial counsel was not ineffective because he had in fact filed appropriate discovery motions, nor ineffective by not…