was jurisdictional for both the pro se motion and any amended motion filed on behalf of the movant. Id. at 918. Similarly the southern district of the court of appeals correctly determined verification to be jurisdictional and mandatory in Batson v. State, 774 S.W.2d 882, 885 (Mo.App.1989) in a case under a Rule 24.035 motion. In Reynolds v. State, 783 S.W.2d 500 (Mo.App.1990), the southern district held that the correct course for trial courts faced-with unverified motions under Rule 29.15 in which the time limit for filing a new motion had passed is summary dismissal of the motion. Any lingering question concerning the plain language of the rule was dispelled with this Court’s holding last term that unverified motions are a nullity. Kilgore v. State, 791 S.W.2d 393 (Mo. banc 1990) (<HOLDING>). The verification requirement is not a shallow
holding that causation is an essential element in failure to warn claim holding that for purposes of rule 2915 the verification requirement is an essential element of the postconviction motion holding that damage to the property of another is an essential element of the offense of criminal mischief holding that failure to instruct on an essential element was harmless error because the element was so clearly established holding dollar amount is not an essential element