Garner v. State

We hold in this case that, when a court of appeals finds no issues of arguable merit in an Anders brief, it may explain why the issues have no arguable merit.

I. Background

The appellant was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to sixteen years in prison. On appeal, the appellant’s counsel filed an Anders 1 brief, requesting to be removed from the case because there were no non-frivolous points of error to be raised on appeal. He did present one point that could potentially be the only appealable error: the rule that “[a] conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice…