Case ID: so2d_519/html/1375-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McMILLAN, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wyatt WILLIAMS v. STATE.
    2 Div. 611.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
    Jan. 26, 1988.
    Richard S. Manley, Demopolis, for appellant.
    Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Sandra Lewis, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
   McMILLAN, Judge.

This court informed the appellant’s counsel on January 4,1987, that he had not filed a brief as required by the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure. No brief has been filed. The appellant is constitutionally entitled to effective assistance of counsel, including the filing of an appellate brief, on the first appeal of right. Evitts v. Lucey, 469 U.S. 387, 105 S.Ct. 830, 83 L.Ed.2d 821 (1985). This cause is remanded to the trial court with instructions to appoint new appellate counsel.

REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS.

All the Judges concur.-