State v. Hurst

DALTON, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from an order and judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County denying an application to vacate a prior judgment of conviction. The appellant is a prisoner in custody of the Warden of the Missouri State Penitentiary under a life sentence for murder in the second degree under the Habitual Criminal Act, ■Section 556.280 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S.

This is the second appeal involving the original judgment of conviction and sen tence which was entered on March 17, 1943. The first appeal was heard and determined in Division Number Two of this court on March 6,…