Legal Opinion

Mason v. State

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided June 28, 1971No. 55935PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Appellant, under Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., seeks to vacate and set aside a judgment of conviction of second murder entered February 4, 1964, with a ten-year sentence in the Department of Corrections. Embodied in three points are appellant’s contentions that he was denied effective assistance of counsel at his trial: His counsel also represented codefendants whose interest conflicted with appellants; his counsel conducted the defense in a wholly inadequate and incompetent manner; and his counsel failed to perfect an appeal after being requested to do so. The second point is…

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2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  2. People v. ChaconCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968
  3. Robert Louis Porter v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
  4. John E. Kress v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1969
  5. Application of Larry Buffalo Chief, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus v. State of South Dakota and Don R. Erickson, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1970

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. McCrary v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975
  2. State v. JohnsonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1977
  3. Babcock v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1972
  4. Mooring v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1973
  5. DePriest v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 2017

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