Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2018-10-25 11:37:03.132499+00
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Order entered October 24, 2018

                                             In The
                                 Court of Appeals
                          Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                      No. 05-18-00398-CR

                           FRANCES MAFNAS DAVIS, Appellant

                                                V.

                              THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                      On Appeal from the 416th Judicial District Court
                                   Collin County, Texas
                          Trial Court Cause No. 296-83715-2016

                                            ORDER
       Appellant’s October 21, 2018 third motion to extend the time to file appellant’s brief is

DENIED.

       We ORDER the trial court to conduct a hearing to determine why appellant’s brief has

not been filed.     In this regard, the trial court shall make appropriate findings and

recommendations and determine whether appellant desires to prosecute the appeal, whether

appellant is indigent, or if not indigent, whether retained counsel has abandoned the appeal. See

TEX. R. APP. P. 38.8(b). If the trial court cannot obtain appellant’s presence at the hearing, the

trial court shall conduct the hearing in appellant’s absence. See Meza v. State, 742 S.W.2d 708

(Tex. App.–Corpus Christi 1987, no pet.) (per curiam). If appellant is indigent, the trial court is
ORDERED to take such measures as may be necessary to assure effective representation, which

may include appointment of new counsel.

         We ORDER the trial court to transmit a record of the proceedings, which shall include

written findings and recommendations, to this Court within THIRTY DAYS of the date of this

order.

         This appeal is ABATED to allow the trial court to comply with the above order. The

appeal shall be reinstated when the findings are received or at such other time as the Court deems

appropriate.

                                                    /s/     CRAIG STODDART
                                                            JUSTICE