Hutson v. State

CRANDALL, Judge.

Movant, Lawrence H. Hutson, was convicted, after a jury trial, of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. That conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. State v. Hutson, 537 S.W.2d 809 (Mo.App.1976). Movant now appeals from the denial of his Rule 27.26 motion after an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.

Movant claims that his trial counsel was ineffective because he failed to raise on appeal the issue of the State’s calling an alleged co-conspirator as a witness and causing that witness to invoke her privilege against self-incrimination in the presence of…