Court Opinion

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IN THE
                         TENTH COURT OF APPEALS

                                No. 10-09-00372-CR
                                No. 10-09-00373-CR

THEODORE GALLIA,
                                                          Appellant
v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,
                                                          Appellee

                          From the 66th District Court
                              Hill County, Texas
                       Trial Court Nos. 31,931 and 34,276

                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Theodore Paul Gallia, Jr. appeals from his convictions based on a motion to

adjudicate and a motion to revoke his community supervision. Gallia, Jr. was placed on

deferred adjudication community supervision for ten years for the offense of attempted

manufacture of methamphetamine of more than four but less than two hundred grams

on January 10, 2002. He was subsequently placed on a ten year sentence that was

probated for ten years for the offense of unlawful possession of a firearm on March 27,

2006. The State filed a motion to adjudicate and a motion to revoke probation on July 9,
2009, and Gallia, Jr. pled not true to all of the allegations contained in the motions.

After a contested hearing, the trial court found some of the allegations to be true, and

made a finding of guilt on the firearm charge. After a hearing on punishment, the trial

court sentenced Gallia, Jr. to imprisonment for fifteen (15) years in the Texas

Department of Criminal Justice – Institutional Division on the manufacturing charge

and to ten (10) years imprisonment on the weapon charge. Gallia, Jr. complains that the

trial court abused its discretion in revoking his probations and sentencing him to the

terms of imprisonment.         Because we find no abuse of discretion, we affirm the

judgment of the trial court.

        Gallia, Jr. contends that the trial court erred by not considering his “rehabilitative

qualities” since he was released from SAFPF. However, Gallia, Jr. concedes that he was

sentenced within the ranges of punishment for his two offenses. A trial court has wide

discretion in imposing an appropriate sentence. Jackson v. State, 680 S.W.2d 809, 814

(Tex. Crim. App. 1984).        Generally, as long as a sentence is within the range of

punishment and has a factual basis in the record, it will not be disturbed on appeal.

Nunez v. State, 565 S.W.2d 536, 538 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978).

        Gallia, Jr. does not point to any evidence in the record that shows that the trial

court ignored any portion of the evidence, and we will not presume that the trial court

did so. Gallia, Jr.’s sentences of ten and fifteen years fall within the statutory ranges of

punishment and the fifteen year sentence is below the maximum sentence authorized

by law. Further, the trial court had been involved with Gallia, Jr. throughout the term

of his first term of community supervision, during which Gallia, Jr. was arrested for

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multiple felonies and misdemeanors; was unsuccessfully discharged from the last phase

of SAFPF which he had been required to attend based on a previous modification of his

community supervision; and since leaving that program, had failed to submit to drug

tests, to report to his probation officer as required, and to pay his required fees, fines,

and restitution even though he was employed as an electrician. We hold that the trial

court did not abuse its discretion in assessing Gallia, Jr.’s sentences and overrule his

sole point of error.

Conclusion

        We find no abuse of discretion in the assessment of Gallia, Jr.’s sentences.

Therefore, the judgments of conviction are affirmed.

                                          TOM GRAY
                                          Chief Justice

Before Chief Justice Gray,
       Justice Reyna, and
       Justice Davis
Affirmed
Opinion delivered and filed September 1, 2010
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