Betts v. State

McMillian, judge.

This is an appeal by James Betts from an order of the Hannibal Court of Common Pleas, Marion County, overruling his Criminal Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., motion to vacate, set aside, or correct judgment of conviction and the 10 year sentence for forcible rape entered on a plea of guilty. The Court of Common Pleas summarily denied the motion without holding an evi-dentiary hearing. In its Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, the Court of Common Pleas stated: “This Court finds and concludes that the record and transcript of the proceedings at the plea of guilty conclusively…