Deckard v. State

BILLINGS, Judge.

This is an appeal by John Vernon Deck-ard from an order of the Greene County Circuit Court overruling his motion to vacate and set aside a 1956 sentence for burglary. We affirm.

Appellant filed his motion under Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., but since he has completed the burglary sentence [he is presently in custody under a 99-year sentence for forcible rape] the trial court treated the motion as a petition for a writ of error coram nobis and conducted an evidentiary hearing on appellant’s claim that his constitutional rights were violated at the time of his guilty plea to the burglary…