Court Opinion

ID: 9768640
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 11:08:31.228805+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:42.724901
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-23-00045-CR

                                 Sostenes Rivas, Jr., Appellant

                                                 v.

                                  The State of Texas, Appellee

                FROM THE 22ND DISTRICT COURT OF HAYS COUNTY
        NO. CR19-0295A, THE HONORABLE R. BRUCE BOYER, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               The State and counsel for appellant Sostenes Rivas, Jr., have each filed a motion

to permanently abate this appeal because, they advise us, Rivas has died. Where, as here, an

appellant in a criminal case dies after an appeal is perfected but before the appellate court issues

the mandate, the court is to permanently abate the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 7.1(a)(2).

Accordingly, we grant the motions and permanently abate this appeal.

                                              __________________________________________
                                              Gisela D. Triana, Justice

Before Justices Baker, Triana, and Smith

Permanently Abated

Filed: August 25, 2023

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