Court Opinion

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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                       NO. 03-04-00437-CR

                                     Kent Monday, Appellant

                                                  v.

                                   The State of Texas, Appellee

        FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY, 27TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
            NO. 47622, HONORABLE C. W. DUNCAN, JR., JUDGE PRESIDING

                             MEMORANDUM OPINION

                 In September 1997, appellant Kent Monday was convicted of felony driving while

intoxicated following a plea of guilty. See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. § 49.04(a) (West 2003), § 49.09(b)

(West Supp. 2004-05). Monday was sentenced to five years in prison, but imposition of sentence

was suspended and he was placed on community supervision. A motion to revoke was filed in

November 2001. After a hearing on the motion in July 2004, the court revoked supervision and

imposed sentence.1 In a single point of error, appellant argues that the evidence does not support the

court’s order.

                 The motion to revoke alleged that Monday violated the conditions of supervision by

failing to report for four months in 2000 and 2001, by failing to pay various costs, fees, and fines,

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       Appellant does not complain of the delay between the filing of the motion and the hearing.
and by failing to perform required hours of community service. These allegations were proved at

the hearing through the testimony of appellant’s probation supervisor. She also testified that after

the motion to revoke was filed, appellant resumed reporting and had paid some of his delinquent fees

and costs. Appellant had not been referred for any additional community service work.

               Appellant does not dispute that he failed to report during the months alleged. He

argues, however, that there was no “pattern of such failures so as to give rise to an inference that he

intentionally or willfully chose not to report.” The decision to revoke, however, is entrusted to the

discretion of the trial court. Garrett v. State, 619 S.W.2d 172, 174 (Tex. Crim. App. 1981). We

cannot say that the court abused its discretion by revoking appellant’s supervision for admitted

failures to report as ordered. We need not address the sufficiency of the evidence as to the other

alleged violations. See Sanchez v. State, 603 S.W.2d 869, 871 (Tex. Crim. App. 1980).

               The order revoking community supervision is affirmed.

                                               __________________________________________

                                               David Puryear, Justice

Before Chief Justice Law, Justices B. A. Smith and Puryear

Affirmed

Filed: June 29, 2005

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