Yeager v. State

OPINION

DIES, Chief Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of murder, and the trial court assessed his penalty at twenty-five (25) years in the Texas Department of Corrections, from which appellant perfects this appeal. His sole ground of error is that “[he] ... was denied reasonably effective assistance of counsel.”

*641Since “this is a developing area in which the lines of demarcation are still changing,” 1 and since we are getting more and more requests for reversal on this ground, perhaps a review of the rules as they now stand will prove helpful.

The standard by which we determine whether…