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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                           NO. 03-02-00170-CR

                                        Ivery Jefferson, Appellant

                                                      v.

                                      The State of Texas, Appellee

          FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF YOUNG COUNTY, 90TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
           NO. 6888, HONORABLE STEPHEN O=NEAL CRAWFORD, JUDGE PRESIDING

                               MEMORANDUM OPINION

                 Appellant Ivery Jefferson appeals from the order revoking his community supervision. See

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 42.12, ' 21 (West Supp. 2003). The State=s motion to revoke alleged

several grounds on which appellant violated the terms and conditions of probation: (1) committing the

offense of tampering with a governmental record; (2) failing to report to the Community Supervision

Department on numerous report dates; (3) failing to pay court costs, all of the fine, probation fees, and

restitution. We will affirm the district court=s order.

                 The State=s burden of proof in a revocation hearing is by a preponderance of the evidence.

Cobb v. State, 851 S.W.2d 871, 873 (Tex. Crim. App. 1993); Willis v. State, 2 S.W.3d 397, 399 (Tex.

App.CAustin 1999, no pet.). Proof of any one of the alleged violations is sufficient to support the order

revoking probation. Moses v. State, 590 S.W.2d 469, 470 (Tex. Crim. App. 1979). An appellate court

views the evidence in a revocation proceeding in the light most favorable to the trial court=s ruling. Garrett
v. State, 619 S.W.2d 172, 174 (Tex. Crim. App. 1981); Willis, 2 S.W.3d at 399. The only question in an

appeal from an order revoking probation is whether the trial court abused its discretion. Jackson v. State,

645 S.W.2d 303, 305 (Tex. Crim. App. 1983); Willis, 2 S.W.3d at 399.

                 In support of the State=s allegation that appellant failed to report, Terry Hawkins,

appellant=s community supervision officer, testified that appellant failed to report on nine report dates.

Hawkins said he asked appellant if Ahe had a legitimate excuse which we accept, hospital or being

incarcerated, and we would have given him credit for those months.@ At the hearing appellant argued that

he could not report because of injuries from an accident. He offered no evidence of any particular medical

problem preventing him from reporting for the specific report dates he missed. The evidence showed that

appellant operated several businesses, regularly drove a motor vehicle, and otherwise engaged in normal

activities. The State established this ground by a preponderance of the evidence. Accordingly, the trial

court did not abuse its discretion in revoking appellant=s probation. We affirm the district-court order.

                                                 Lee Yeakel, Justice

Before Justices Kidd, B. A. Smith and Yeakel

Affirmed

Filed: January 30, 2003

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