Casias v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for unlawfully carrying a pistol, wherein the punishment was assessed at a one hundred dollar fine.

No appellate brief has been filed as required by Article 40.09, Sec. 9, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P., and there is no transcription of the court reporter’s notes in the record. Nothing is presented for review.

We do note, however, that the appellant was sentenced in absentia after he had executed a written sworn waiver of his right to be present, which was approved by his counsel. Such waiver was filed among the papers of the cause. Thereafter, with…