Guevara v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This appeal came to us on a bare transcript, without a statement of facts or appellant’s' brief. By an unpublished per cu-riam opinion delivered February 15, 1978, we abated the appeal so that the trial court could inquire why no statement of facts was prepared and why neither the retained counsel nor the appointed counsel filed a brief for the appellant. The trial court has conducted a hearing, and we reinstate the appeal.

We need not reach the question of whether the appellant has been denied effective assistance of counsel on appeal. Fundamental error appears in the…