State v. Holland

HENLEY, Judge.

Defendant appeals from an order overruling his motion to withdraw his plea of guilty to a charge of murder in the first degree and to set aside the judgment imposing a sentence of life imprisonment.

Defendant was charged by information filed June 29, 1965, with murder, first degree; specifically, the charge was that he shot and killed one John Henry Allen Mathew with a shotgun on May 18, 1965, in Jackson county. He was represented at the preliminary hearing in magistrate court and in the circuit court by Mr. Richard B. Kirwan of the Kansas City bar, counsel employed by his…