Rodriguez v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated robbery. The jury assessed punishment at twenty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. The trial court’s docket sheet indicates that notice of appeal was given in open court on the day sentence was pronounced, May 25, 1982. Since then, the course of the appeal has not run smoothly and, as will readily become apparent, the responsibility for this error-plagued appeal must be shared in part by many: by the appellant, the State of Texas, the District Clerk, the trial court and by this Court.

In his sole ground of error,…