Poole v. State

ARTHUR LITZ, Special Judge.

Appellant Charles Poole after a hearing appeals from the trial Court’s decision overruling his Rule 27.26 Motion to correct, vacate or set aside his conviction and sentence. The grounds are based on ineffective assistance of counsel at his trial. We reverse and remand.

Poole was convicted of assault with intent to kill with malice in 1976, from an altercation in a melee involving many people, and sentenced to twenty years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. The conviction was affirmed in 1977. State v. Poole, 556 S.W.2d 493.

The Public Defender who conducted…