Keeny v. State

BILLINGS, Judge.

No. 10941

Defendant Robert Gene Keeny was convicted of first degree robbery in Bates County in 1966 and sentenced under the Second Offender Act [§ 556.280, RSMo 1969] to 25 years imprisonment. The judgment was affirmed by our Supreme Court in 431 S.W.2d 95 (Mo.1968). Three prior felony convictions formed the basis for the prosecution of defendant as a second offender.

In 1976 defendant filed this proceeding for Writ of Error Coram Nobis in the Circuit Court of Webster County. He contended that the guilty plea which he entered to a felony charge in that court in 1964 was…