         TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN


                                        NO. 03-02-00284-CR




                                Juan Manuel Cervantes, Appellant

                                                   v.

                                    The State of Texas, Appellee


     FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY, 368TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
            NO. 02-190-K368, HONORABLE BURT CARNES, JUDGE PRESIDING




                Appellant Juan Manuel Cervantes pleaded guilty to aggravated assault. See Tex. Pen.

Code Ann. ' 22.02 (West 1994). The court adjudged him guilty and sentenced him to twenty years=

imprisonment.

                The clerk=s record contains a written waiver of appeal signed by appellant. This document

reflects a knowing and voluntary waiver of the right to appeal and was signed on the day sentence was

imposed in open court. A defendant who knowingly and intelligently waives his right to appeal may not

thereafter appeal without the consent of the trial court. Ex parte Dickey, 543 S.W.2d 99 (Tex. Crim.

App. 1976); see also Hurd v. State, 548 S.W.2d 388 (Tex. Crim. App. 1977); Reed v. State, 516

S.W.2d 680 (Tex. Crim. App. 1974). Appellant sought and was refused permission to appeal.
                 The appeal is dismissed.




                                              __________________________________________

                                              Jan P. Patterson, Justice

Before Justices Kidd, Patterson and Puryear

Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction

Filed: June 13, 2002

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