Hood v. State

GARY M. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Movant, Michael Hood, appeals from the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion after an evidentiary hearing. We affirm. Movant was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter on July 7, 1986, and was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. This court affirmed movant’s conviction on direct appeal. State v. Hood, 745 S.W.2d 785 (Mo.App., E.D.1988).

*566Movant lived with his girlfriend, Cynthia Moore, and her five children, two of whom were fathered by her former boyfriend, Jeffrey Bernard Gary. At approximately four o’clock in the afternoon on January 12, 1986, Mr. Gary…