Kline v. State

PREWITT, Chief Judge.

Movant appeals from the denial, without an evidentiary hearing, of his motion under Rule 27.26, seeking to vacate convictions on two charges of receiving stolen property. Movant pled guilty and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on each charge with the sentences to run consecutively.

Movant claims that he received ineffective assistance of counsel before entering his guilty pleas because “the stolen property he received was not of sufficient value to constitute a felony.” Movant contends that a “proper investigation of the case by his counsel would have made it…