Howard v. State

KELLY, Judge.

This appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis denying appellant’s motion to set aside and vacate his conviction was filed under the authority of Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R. After an evidentiary hearing the trial court entered a judgment after reciting its findings of fact and conclusions of law. Although appellant raised 26 grounds for his motion, on appeal he relies on only four. These are:

1. Evidence used against him was the fruit of an unlawful search and seizure;

2. Confessions secured “by protracted and repeated questioning of an ignorant and untutored…