Legal Opinion
Meeks v. State
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided May 20, 1974No. 9469PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BILLINGS, Judge.
This is a Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., proceeding wherein Marshall Lee Meeks, serving a fifty-year prison term for second degree murder, sought credit for the time he spent in jail prior to his guilty plea and sentencing in 1969. Appellant’s post-conviction motion was dismissed by the trial court, rejecting his contention that § 546.-615, as amended in 1971, is retroactive. We affirm.
Appellant has heretofore sought post-conviction relief. His first Rule 27.26 motion was denied by the Supreme Court in 1972 in Meeks v. State, 484 S.W.2d 167. Federal habeas corpus was denied in 1973 in…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Williams v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- State v. BrownSupreme Court of Missouri · 1973
- Joseph N. Gremillion v. C. Murray Henderson, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- State v. ThomasSupreme Court of Missouri · 1969
- State v. WhiteakerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1973
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Arthur Jackson, Jr. v. State of Alabama, Jasper Lee Cooks v. Circuit Court of Mobile CountyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
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- John Hilary Durham v. Donald W. Wyrick, Warden, Missouri State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
- Hatfield v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975
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