Case Name: Wayne H. ROGERS, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1984-12-31
Citations: 686 S.W.2d 25
Docket Number: No. 48247
Parties: Wayne H. ROGERS, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.
Judges: DOWD, P.J., and CRIST, J., concur.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 686
Pages: 25–25

Head Matter:
Wayne H. ROGERS, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.
No. 48247.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three.
Dec. 31, 1984.
Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied Feb. 13, 1985.
Application to Transfer Denied April 2, 1985.
John Putzel, Asst. Public Defender, Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, St. Louis, for appellant.
John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Thomas Carter, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Opinion:
CLEMENS, Senior Judge.
Movant Wayne Rogers (hereinafter defendant) appeals the denial of his Rule 27.-26 motion. He challenges two concurrent eleven-year sentences for first degree robberies rendered upon his guilty pleas.
Defendant testified he pled guilty because his counsel had advised him that if he pled not guilty, as a persistent offender he could be sentenced to as much as 30 years in prison. Defendant did not call trial counsel to testify.
The motion court found against defendant's claim trial counsel had told him what his punishment would be if he was found to be a persistent offender. The hearing court ruled defendant had failed to show his guilty plea was involuntary for any reason.
VanMoore v. State, 667 S.W.2d 470[1, 2] (Mo.App.1984) holds that on a Rule 27.26 hearing it is movant's burden to show error by preponderance of the evidence, and a trial court may reject movant's testimony even though uncontradicted. So it is here.
Affirmed.
DOWD, P.J., and CRIST, J., concur.