                         NUMBER 13-13-00200-CR

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                  THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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VENICES ALVIN HAWKINS,                                                     Appellant,

                                          v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
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             On appeal from the 426th District Court
                     of Bell County, Texas.
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
      Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Garza and Perkes
                  Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, Venices Alvin Hawkins, 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Do not publish.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
25th day of July, 2013.




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