Grant v. State

BILLINGS, Judge.

Freddie Lee Grant, alias Freddie Lee King, has appealed from the order of the Circuit Court of New Madrid County denying him postconviction relief via Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., from a 99-year sentence he is presently serving for the crime of forcible rape. We affirm.

Following appellant’s 1962 conviction by a jury and sentencing by the court under the Second Offender Act, no appeal was taken. Thereafter, in 1963, appellant filed his first motion under Rule 27.26, urging as grounds for relief various violations of his constitutional rights and sentence and judgment having been…