                           NUMBER 13-12-00749-CR

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                  THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                    CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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ALBERT SANCHEZ,                                                            Appellant,

                                          v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                  Appellee.
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              On Appeal from the 347th District Court
                    of Nueces County, Texas.
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

     Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Benavides and Longoria
                    Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      This appeal was abated by this Court on July 23, 2013, because appellant’s brief

had not been filed. Appellant, Albert Sanchez, by and through his attorney, has filed a

motion to dismiss his appeal because he no longer desires to prosecute it. See TEX. R.

APP. P. 42.2(a). Accordingly, this case is hereby REINSTATED.
      Without passing on the merits of the case, we GRANT the motion to dismiss

pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 42.2(a) and 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Do not publish.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
19th day of December, 2013.




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