Case Name: Tom WATSON, III, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 2008-07-29
Citations: 264 S.W.3d 655
Docket Number: No. WD 67819
Parties: Tom WATSON, III, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.
Judges: Before: PAUL M. SPINDEN, P.J., JAMES E. WELSH and ALOK AHUJA, JJ.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Third Series
Volume: 264
Pages: 655–656

Head Matter:
Tom WATSON, III, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.
No. WD 67819.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
July 29, 2008.
Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied Sept. 2, 2008.
Application for Transfer Denied Oct. 28, 2008.
Elizabeth U. Carlyle, Columbus, MS, for appellant.
Shaun J. Mackelprang, Jefferson City, MO, for respondent.
Before: PAUL M. SPINDEN, P.J., JAMES E. WELSH and ALOK AHUJA, JJ.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
Appellant Tom Watson appeals the circuit court's judgment denying his motion for post-conviction relief after an eviden-tiary hearing. After pleading guilty to five counts of sodomy, § 566.060, RSMo 1990, Appellant was sentenced in Jackson County Circuit Court to twenty years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, with the sentence on two of the counts to be served consecutively. Appellant now claims that there was an insufficient factual basis to support his guilty plea, and that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to object to the insufficient factual basis and for failing to call certain character witnesses to testify at Appellant's sentencing.
We affirm. Because a published opinion would have no precedential value, a memorandum has been provided to the parties. Rule 84.16(b).