Pauley v. State

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is an appeal by Leonard Dean Pau-ley from an order overruling his Criminal Rule 27.26 motion to vacate judgment of conviction and 12-year sentence for first degree robbery, entered on a plea of guilty. The circuit court summarily denied the motion without holding an evidentiary hearing, the order reading: “The Court finds from examination of the files of [sic] records, transcripts and motion, that Petitioner fails to set forth grounds for relief.” We have jurisdiction because the appeal was taken prior to January 1, 1972. Art. V, §§ 3, 31, Constitution of Missouri,…