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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-04-00326-CR

Christopher Donald Ray Session a/k/a Orlando Myers, Appellant

v.

The State of Texas, Appellee

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY, 264TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NO. 45712, HONORABLE JOE CARROLL, JUDGE PRESIDING

M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

In 1996, appellant Christopher Donald Ray Session pleaded guilty to possessing more
than four grams of cocaine.  See Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 481.115 (West 2003).  The
district court found that the evidence substantiated appellant's guilt, deferred further proceedings,
and placed appellant on community supervision for ten years.  In 2004, the court heard the State's
motion to adjudicate, adjudged appellant guilty, and imposed an enhanced sixty-five year sentence.
Appellant's court-appointed attorney filed a brief concluding that the appeal is
frivolous and without merit.  The brief meets the requirements of Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738

(1967), by presenting a professional evaluation of the record demonstrating why there are no
arguable grounds to be advanced.  See also Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988); High v. State, 573
S.W.2d 807 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978); Currie v. State, 516 S.W.2d 684 (Tex. Crim. App. 1974);
Jackson v. State, 485 S.W.2d 553 (Tex. Crim. App. 1972); Gainous v. State, 436 S.W.2d 137 (Tex.
Crim. App. 1969).
Appellant has also filed a pro se brief raising seven points of error.  Points one and
two challenge the sufficiency of the evidence with regard to the violations alleged in the motion to
adjudicate.  These points are not properly before us, as the decision to proceed to adjudication is not
appealable.  Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 42.12, § 5(b) (West Supp. 2004-05); Garcia v. State,
45 S.W.3d 740, 742 (Tex. App.--Austin 2001, pet. ref'd).  For the same reason, we do not reach
appellant's fourth point, in which he claims that a "material defense witness has been kept from the
court," apparently at the adjudication hearing.  
Appellant's third pro se point of error challenges the voluntariness of his guilty plea. 
This contention cannot be raised on appeal following revocation of supervision and adjudication of
guilt.  Jordan v. State, 54 S.W.3d 783, 786 (Tex. Crim. App. 2001).
Pro se points of error five and six complain of statements made by the prosecutor
during argument at the sentencing hearing.  There was no objection to these statements and therefore
nothing is presented for review.  Cockrell v. State, 933 S.W.2d 73, 89 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996).
Finally, appellant urges that the 27th District Court did not have jurisdiction to
adjudicate him guilty and impose sentence because the indictment was filed in the 264th District
Court, which also took his guilty plea and deferred his adjudication.  In fact, the adjudication and
sentencing proceedings were conducted in the 264th District Court, albeit before the elected judge
of the 27th District Court, as reflected on the face of the district court's judgment.  No error is
shown.  See Casey v. State, 519 S.W.2d 859, 860-61 (Tex. Crim. App. 1975).

We have reviewed the record, counsel's brief, and the pro se brief.  We find nothing
in the record that might arguably support the appeal.  Counsel's motion to withdraw is granted.
The judgment of conviction is affirmed.

				________________________________________
				David Puryear, Justice
Before Chief Justice Law, Justices Kidd and Puryear
Affirmed
Filed:   December 2, 2004
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