Smith v. State

The majority reverses and remands this case, not for any merit in appellant’s several allegations of error, but because it considers the order denying the Rule 37 petition to be insufficient in findings of fact.

Nothing is to be gained by remanding the case. We are not handicapped in the slightest in gauging the pros and cons of the appeal, to which the majority opinion bears witness. It is clear that appellant’s arguments are without substance. Nothing in the majority opinion suggests otherwise and the record itself amply demonstrates that appellant was entitled to no relief from his guilty…