Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-12-12 08:23:42.678993+00
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NUMBERS 13-16-00191-CR

                               COURT OF APPEALS

                    THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                       CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

JOHN GIBBS,                                                                         Appellant,

                                                v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                                                  Appellee.

                     On appeal from the 176th District Court
                           of Harris County, Texas.

                                           ORDER
                  Before Justices Garza, Perkes, and Longoria
                               Order Per Curiam

       Currently pending before the Court is appellant's motion for pro se access to the

appellate record and motion for extension of time to file the brief. 1 Appellant's counsel

        1 This case is before the Court on transfer from the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston

pursuant to a docket equalization order issued by the Supreme Court of Texas. See TEX. GOV'T CODE
ANN. § 73.001 (West, Westlaw through 2015 R.S.).
has filed an Anders brief herein and appellant has been unable to examine the record so

that he can file a pro se brief.

       Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the trial court ensure that appellant has

the opportunity to fully examine the appellate record on or before January 4, 2017, and it

is FURTHER ORDERED that the trial court notify this Court as to the date upon which the

appellate record was made available to appellant. See Kelly v. State, 436 S.W.3d 313

(Tex. Crim. App. 2014).

       Appellant’s motion for extension of time to file a pro se brief is GRANTED.

Appellant shall have thirty (30) days from the day the appellate record was first made

available to him to file his pro se brief with this Court. The State shall have twenty days

thereafter to file its response, if any.

       IT IS SO ORDERED.

                                                       PER CURIAM

Do not publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed the
9th day of December, 2016.

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