Hemphill v. State

CRIST, Judge.

Movant appeals the denial, after an evi-dentiary hearing, of his Rule 27.26 motion. We affirm.

Following his jury conviction of two counts of robbery in the first degree, which was affirmed by this court, State v. Hemphill, 669 S.W.2d 633 (Mo.App.1984), movant filed this Rule 27.26 motion asserting he received ineffective assistance of counsel due to his lawyer’s failure to investigate his co-defendant as a potential witness. The Rule 27.26 judge chose to believe mov-ant’s trial attorney, who testified she did investigate the co-defendant and did not call him as a witness for…