Scott v. State

OPINION

UTTER, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of murdering her husband Leslie Wayne Scott and assessed punishment at 75 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. The *270judgment of the trial court is reformed, and as reformed, affirmed.

Before addressing the points of error raised in appellant’s brief, we will consider her motion to abate the appeal for an out-of-time hearing on her motion for new trial. Appellant’s present counsel contends in the motion that appellant’s trial counsel filed a motion for new trial and then abandoned appellant, thereby allowing the motion for new trial to…