Court Opinion

ID: 2742851
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-10-16 07:07:53.178082+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:16:17.041419
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals
                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                               NO. 09-14-00115-CV
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            IN RE COMMITMENT OF GERARD NEIL MATZEN

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                    On Appeal from the 435th District Court
                         Montgomery County, Texas
                        Trial Cause No. 13-07-07696 CV
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      The trial court clerk notified the appellate court that she was unable to file

the record because the appellant is not entitled to appeal without paying the fee,

and the appellant has failed to pay the fee or make arrangements to pay the fee for

preparing the record. State Counsel for Offenders notified the Court that the trial

court sustained the State’s contest to the appellant’s affidavit of indigence after the

appellant disclosed that he had $15,000 on deposit in the Inmate Trust Fund. The

appellant did not challenge the trial court’s ruling on the contest. See Tex. R. App.

P. 20.1(j)(1). We notified the parties that the appeal would be dismissed for want

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of prosecution unless the appellant either arranged for the trial court clerk to

prepare the record or showed that additional time was needed to file the record. See

Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). No response has been filed and the appellant has not

shown that he is entitled to proceed without payment of costs. Id. We dismiss the

appeal for want of prosecution. Id.; see also Tex. R. App. P. 42.3.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

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                                                       STEVE McKEITHEN
                                                           Chief Justice

Submitted on October 15, 2014
Opinion Delivered October 16, 2014

Before McKeithen, C.J., Horton and Johnson, JJ.

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