MEMORANDUM
MEREDITH, District Judge.
Petitioner, with court-appointed counsel, was tried in the state court by a jury in Jefferson County, Missouri, on May 18, 1939, and was found guilty of forcible rape and sentenced on May 19, 1939, to fifty years imprisonment.
In August of 1964 under the provisions of Missouri Criminal Rule 27.26, V.A. M.R., he instituted a proceeding to vacate the original judgment and sentence. The Circuit Court of Jefferson...
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