                              NUMBER 13-19-00289-CR

                                  COURT OF APPEALS

                      THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                         CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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JAMES EDWARD THOMAS,                                                                       Appellant,

                                                    v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
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             On appeal from the 272nd District Court
                   of Brazos County, Texas.
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                               MEMORANDUM OPINION

               Before Justices Benavides, Longoria, and Perkes
                   Memorandum Opinion by Justice Perkes

        Appellant James Edward Thomas, by and through his attorney, has filed a motion

to dismiss his appeal1 because he no longer desires to prosecute it. See TEX. R. APP.

P. 42.2(a). We have not issued a decision in this appeal and the motion to dismiss is


        1  His appeal was transferred to this Court from the Fourteenth Court of Appeals by order of the
Texas Supreme Court. See TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. § 22.220(a) (delineating the jurisdiction of appellate
courts); id. § 73.001 (granting the supreme court the authority to transfer cases from one court of appeals
to another at any time that there is “good cause” for the transfer).
signed by both appellant and his attorney. See id. The motion to dismiss thus meets

the requirements of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. See id.

       Accordingly, without passing on the merits of the case, we grant the motion to

dismiss and we dismiss the appeal. See id.; Arthur v. State, 542 S.W.3d 822, 822 (Tex.

App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2018, no pet.) (per curiam). Having dismissed the appeal at

appellant’s request, no motion for rehearing will be entertained, and our mandate will

issue forthwith.

                                                    GREGORY T. PERKES
                                                    Justice


Do not publish.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

Delivered and filed the
5th day of September, 2019.




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