Gates v. State

DIXON, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Larry Raymond Gates from a denial, following an eviden-tiary hearing, of his Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., Motion to Vacate Judgment of Conviction and Sentence of forty years entered upon a jury verdict of guilty of robbery first degree. While a number of grounds for relief were set forth in appellant’s original motion, only two points of error have been presented to this court for review.

Initially, Gates complains that the trial court erred in overruling his Rule 27.26 motion because his trial and resulting conviction violated the double jeopardy provision of…