Waynetta Demetris Roberson v. State

ON STATE’S MOTION TO DISMISS

Pending before the court is the State’s motion to dismiss this appeal. Waynetta Demetris Roberson, appellant, perfected her appeal after being sentenced in open court on November 10, 2004. According to the State’s motion and affidavit attached thereto, appellant disappeared during her trial and the trial continued in her absence. However, the record discloses that she was captured approximately three years later and returned to Wheeler County. So, too was she present for the pronouncement of her sentence in open court on the 10th of November. Though having been…