(Download) "State Missouri v. James William Stidham" by Supreme Court of Missouri En Banc # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Missouri v. James William Stidham
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri En Banc
- Release Date : January 05, 1967
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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The appellant James William Stidham is a prisoner in the Missouri State Penitentiary where he is serving a sentence of life imprisonment for murder. The judgment of conviction was affirmed by this court on September 9, 1957. State v. Stidham, Mo., 305 S.W.2d 7. On March 9, 1964, Stidham, pursuant to S. Ct. Rule 27.26, filed pro se in the Circuit Court of Butler County a motion to vacate and set aside his sentence. The motion to vacate was denied without an evidentiary hearing and on appeal this court on June 13, 1966, affirmed the order and judgment. State v. Stidham, Mo., 403 S.W.2d 616. Thereafter, Stidham filed pro se a second motion to vacate under Rule 27.26 which presented claims not made in his first motion. The trial court without an evidentiary hearing also denied the second motion to vacate, and the prisoner's appeal from that order and judgment is now before us. The movant filed a brief pro se in this court and made an oral argument. On January 9, 1967, this court adopted a revised S. Ct. Rule 27.26. The effective date of the revised rule is September 1, 1967, but the trial courts may use the new procedure before that date. State v. Garner, Mo., 412 S.W.2d 155, 157.