Court Opinion

ID: 9397349
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Date Created: 2023-05-25 08:12:00.669762+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:23.762211
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In The
                                   Court of Appeals
                          Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo

                                         No. 07-23-00120-CR

                          DARRELL DEWEESE MCCRAY, APPELLANT

                                                   V.

                               THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

                              On Appeal from the 227th District Court
                                      Bexar County, Texas1
               Trial Court No. 2019CR4690, Honorable Christine Del Prado, Presiding

                                            May 18, 2023
                        ORDER OF ABATEMENT AND REMAND
                         Before PARKER and DOSS and YARBROUGH, JJ.

        In 2020, Appellant, Darrell DeWeese McCray, was convicted of possession of a

controlled substance and sentenced to three years’ confinement, suspended in favor of

community supervision.2 Appellant now appeals from the trial court’s judgment revoking

his community supervision.

        1Originally appealed to the Fourth Court of Appeals, this appeal was transferred to this Court by
the Texas Supreme Court pursuant to its docket equalization efforts. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 73.001.
        2   See TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 481.115(b).
       The trial court’s certification of Appellant’s right of appeal provides conflicting

certifications. See TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(a)(2), (d); Dears v. State, 154 S.W.3d 610, 614–

15 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005) (requiring appellate courts to determine whether a certification

comports with the record). The document indicates that this “is not a plea-bargain case,

and the defendant has the right of appeal,” but also provides that this “is a plea-bargain

case, and the defendant has NO right of appeal.”

       Because the certification of Appellant’s right of appeal appears defective, we abate

the appeal and remand the cause to the trial court to prepare an amended certification

consistent with the record. See TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(d), (f). The amended certification

shall be included in a supplemental clerk’s record filed with the Clerk of this Court by May

30, 2023.

       It is so ordered.

                                                        Per Curiam

Do not publish.

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