State v. Stidham

DONNELLY, Judge.

In 1955, defendant was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court of Butler County, Missouri of the murder of Walter Lee Donnell during the riot in the Missouri Penitentiary on the evening of September 22, 1954. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The judgment was affirmed upon appeal, the opinion of this Court appearing at 305 S.W.2d 7.

On March 9, 1964, defendant filed in the Circuit Court of Butler County, Missouri, his Motion to Vacate Sentence and Judgment under Supreme Court Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R. Defendant, in his motion, asserts that “he is unlawfully deprived of his…