Hurd v. State

GARY M. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Damon Lamar Hurd, defendant, appeals from the denial of his Rule 27.26 motion without an evidentiary hearing. Finding defendant’s contention to be without merit, we affirm.

The facts ' show that defendant pled guilty on January 11, 1983, to murder in the second degree RSMo § 565.021 (1986) and was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. Defendant originally had been charged with capital murder or, in the alternative, murder in the first degree and two counts of assault in the first degree. The capital murder charge was reduced to second degree murder in…