Brewer v. State

A motion has been filed by appellant’s court-appointed counsel at trial to be relieved as counsel on the appeal of his criminal conviction and to allow his new and retained lawyer to be substituted as counsel on the appeal after appellant obtained a transcript of the trial record at State expense. We believe that there are serious factual issues to be resolved before we can decide the question; therefore, we are remanding the motion to the trial court.

Appellant was charged by information, tried to a jury, and eventually convicted following a four-day trial on two counts of rape involving…