State v. Hayes

KENNEDY, Judge.

Movant’s Rule 29.15 motion charged ineffective assistance of counsel in (among other things) counsel's failure to interview and call alibi witness Barbara Carver in mov-ant’s 1986 trial for forcible rape. The trial resulted in movant’s conviction and a sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment. The conviction was affirmed by this court by per curiam order. State v. Hayes, 724 S.W.2d 276 (Mo.App.1986). The trial court after an evidentiary hearing denied movant’s Rule 29.15 motion and he appeals to this court. For reasons which we will explain, we reverse.

Movant was convicted of the…