Baker v. State

RENDLEN, Judge.

This is a post-conviction relief proceeding under Supreme Court Rule 27.26. After a jury found James Carl Baker guilty of first degree robbery by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon and of assault with intent to do great bodily harm with malice aforethought, the court imposed consecutive sentences of fifty years’ imprisonment for the robbery and forty years for the assault. That judgment was affirmed in State v. Baker, 548 S.W.2d 572 (Mo.App.1975).

In 1976 Baker, by his original and twice-amended motion, sought to vacate the sentence alleging (1) erroneous charges in the…