Maddox v. State

John I. Purtle, Justice.

This is an appeal from an adverse ruling by the trial court on appellant’s petition for Rule 37 relief based upon ineffective assistance of counsel. The appellant argues the trial court should be reversed because it erred in failing to find ineffective assistance of counsel and that it was prejudicial error to allow the trial attorney to sit in court during the hearing on the Rule 37 claim. We do not find that prejudice resulted from the errors committed by the trial court and therefore affirm the decision.

The facts of this case reveal that appellant, then 16 years of…