Court Opinion

ID: 4407945
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Date Created: 2019-06-18 23:48:22.745933+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:48:52.406810
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Order filed June 18, 2019

                                       In The

                     Fourteenth Court of Appeals
                                    ____________

                               NO. 14-19-00377-CR
                                    ____________

                   GLENN CASEY PORTWOOD, Appellant

                                          V.

                       THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

               On Appeal from the 434th Judicial District Court
                          Fort Bend County, Texas
                   Trial Court Cause No. 12-DCR-061693

                                      ORDER

      Appellant timely appealed from his conviction of aggravated sexual assault of
a child less than 14 years of age. The clerk’s record, filed June 12, 2019, does not
contain a certification of appellant’s right to appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2),
34.5(a)(12).

      An appeal must be dismissed if a certification showing that the defendant has
the right of appeal has not been made part of the record. Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d);
Dears v. State, 154 S.W.3d 610, 613 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005) (“The court of appeals
must dismiss an appeal if a certification showing that the defendant has the right to
appeal is not made a part of the appellate record.”).

         We therefore ABATE the appeal and order the trial court to execute a
certification of appellant’s right to appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 34.5(c)(2), 37.1, 44.4;
Cortez v. State, 420 S.W.3d 803, 806–07 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013). The trial court
shall file a certification of the defendant’s right of appeal with the district clerk and
direct the clerk to prepare and file a supplemental clerk’s record containing the
certification with this court by July 18, 2018.

         The appeal is abated, treated as a closed case, and removed from this court’s
active docket. The appeal will be reinstated on this court’s active docket when the
supplemental record containing the certification of the defendant’s right to appeal is
filed.

                                    PER CURIAM