                           NUMBER 13-12-00235-CR

                           COURT OF APPEALS

                  THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                    CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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RICKEY JOE FRANKS,                                                        Appellant,

                                          v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
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              On Appeal from the 36th District Court
                   of Aransas County, Texas.
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

    Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Garza
                  Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, Rickey Joe Franks, by and through his attorney, has filed a motion to

withdraw his appeal because he no longer desires to prosecute it. See TEX. R. APP. P.

42.2(a). Without passing on the merits of the case, we grant the motion to withdraw the

appeal and pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 42.2(a), dismiss the appeal.
Having dismissed the appeal at appellant's request, no motion for rehearing will be

entertained, and our mandate will issue forthwith.

                                                         PER CURIAM

Do not publish. See TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed the
17th day of May, 2012.




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