Feist v. Sekaly

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

This is an appeal from the granting of a motion for summary judgment. Appellant filed suit alleging legal malpractice. Ap-pellee had been court appointed to represent Appellant in a criminal proceeding, in which appellant was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to forty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. Ap-pellee was allowed to withdraw as of the date of sentencing, April 8, 1981. Appellant then appealed that criminal conviction, and it was affirmed by this court, Feist v. State, 631 S.W.2d 769 (Tex.App. — Beaumont 1982, no pet.). On April 2,…