Motes v. State

Beverly C. Claunch, a full-time managing public defender for the Sixteenth Judicial District, moves this court to withdraw from representing the appellant. She states in her motion that she was appointed to represent the appellant after he was found indigent by the Stone County Circuit Court. She further states that appellant’s notice of appeal was timely filed and that the transcript was lodged with this court. She states that she should be allowed to withdraw as the attorney in this matter because she is a full-time public defender and because requiring her to represent the appellant on…