Court Opinion

ID: 4572902
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Date Created: 2020-10-05 07:14:34.127552+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:31:27.948328
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NUMBER 13-20-00040-CV

                               COURT OF APPEALS

                    THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                       CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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ERNEST FUENTES,                                                              Appellant,

                                                v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
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              On appeal from the 25th District Court
                   of Lavaca County, Texas.
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION
   Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Longoria and Perkes
              Memorandum Opinion by Justice Longoria
       The appellant’s brief in the above cause was originally due on March 2, 2020. On

March 4, 2020, the Clerk of the Court sent notice to appellant instructing that this appeal

was subject to dismissal for want of prosecution under Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure

38.8(a)(1), unless appellant reasonably explained the failure and the appellees were not

significantly injured by the appellant’s failure to timely file a brief.
       Appellant has failed to either reasonably explain the failure to file a brief, file a

motion for extension of time to file the brief, or file the brief. Accordingly, the appeal is

DISMISSED FOR WANT OF PROSECUTION. See TEX. R. APP. P. 38.8(a), 42.3(b)(c).

                                                                NORA L. LONGORIA
                                                                Justice

Delivered and filed the
1st day of October, 2020.

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