Blade v. State

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

Appeal from denial of a Rule 27.26 motion. Seven indictments had charged mov-ant (hereafter defendant) with eleven crimes 1 Defendant pleaded guilty in 1975 and 1976. The trial court accepted the pleas and sentenced defendant to concurrent 20-year terms.

Defendant moved to vacate the sentences and the court, relying on the guilty-plea records, denied the motion without a hearing. Defendant now files two consolidated appeals. He challenges the court’s failure to grant an evidentiary hearing and contends his guilty pleas were involuntary because his attorney failed to…