Johnson v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction in a bench trial for aggravated robbery where the punishment was assessed at five (5) years.

We are met at the outset with the question of whether there was a proper notice of appeal.

On February 28, 1975, which was two days after appellant was sentenced, he filed a pro se notice of appeal. On March 4, 1975, appellant executed a sworn written instrument before the clerk of the trial court. That instrument states, inter alia, as follows:

“That he was on the 26th day of February 1975, convicted in said court of the offense of…