Jacobs v. State

Appellant Frederick Jacobs moves for a belated appeal, which is granted. However, this case involves another appeal where a transcript has been requested of the court reporter of the 10th Judicial Circuit, and she states her tapes, reflecting the trial record, cannot be reproduced. The court reporter, Val Dixon Sims, is apparently no longer employed by the court, but she testified at a January 30, 1996 hearing regarding the state of the record in this cause, and her testimony seems somewhat conflicting. Ms. Sims indicated she had about twenty tapes produced during the appellant’s trial, but…