Butler v. State

OPINION

DROWOTA, Chief Justice.

This is a post-conviction proceeding in which the sole issue presented is whether Petitioner was deprived of his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel. After an evidentiary hearing in 1985, the trial court dismissed the petition. Reversing the trial court and granting the petition, the Court of Criminal Appeals vacated the judgment of conviction and the sentence and remanded the cause for a new trial. We now reverse the Court of Criminal Appeals and reinstate the judgment of conviction and sentence.

In September 1977, Petitioner, Robert Butler, a…