Court Opinion

ID: 7360613
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-26 10:09:43.493072+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:20:30.497484
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                     NO. 03-21-00531-CR

                                Jimmy Lee Rhodes, Appellant

                                                v.

                                 The State of Texas, Appellee

                FROM THE 22ND DISTRICT COURT OF HAYS COUNTY
       NO. CR-17-0393-C, THE HONORABLE R. BRUCE BOYER, JUDGE PRESIDING

                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

               Jimmy Lee Rhodes was convicted of murder, and he appealed the trial court’s

judgment of conviction. See Tex. Penal Code § 19.01. Rhodes’s attorney has filed a suggestion

of death, explaining that Rhodes died while the appeal was pending. When an appellant in a

criminal case dies after an appeal is perfected but before the appellate court issues the mandate,

the appellate court must permanently abate the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 7.1(a)(2); Jaminez

Sosa v. State, No. 03-19-00130-CR, 2019 WL 6975113, at *1 (Tex. App.—Austin Dec. 20,

2019, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication). Accordingly, we permanently abate

the appeal.
                                            __________________________________________
                                            Thomas J. Baker, Justice

Before Justices Goodwin, Baker, and Kelly

Permanently Abated

Filed: July 22, 2022

Do Not Publish

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