Jones v. State

GAERTNER, Judge.

This is an appeal from the dismissal without evidentiary hearing of one of eighteen grounds alleged in a Rule 27.26 motion.

Appellant was charged with six offenses as a participant in the robberies and killing of patrons of Cousin Hugo’s Tavern in St. Louis County. A jury found him guilty of one count of robbery and one count of assault and acquitted him on the other four counts. At his request a pre-sentence investigation was made. In the P.S.I. report, appellant was quoted as having admitted to the probation officer facts tending to implicate him in the entire affair. The…