Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-10-16 01:52:16.318387+00
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NUMBER 13-13-00611-CR

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                  THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

TOMMY LANE WADDELL,                                                         Appellant,

                                           v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                                          Appellee.

                    On appeal from the 33rd District Court
                          of Burnet County, Texas.

                 ORDER TO FILE APPELLATE BRIEF
     Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Garza and Longoria
                           Order Per Curiam

      This appeal was transferred to this Court from the Third Court of Appeals by order

of the Texas Supreme Court. See TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. § 22.220(a) (West, Westlaw

through 2013 3d C.S.) (delineating the jurisdiction of appellate courts); TEX. GOV'T CODE

ANN. § 73.001 (West, Westlaw through 2013 3d C.S.) (granting the supreme court the
authority to transfer cases from one court of appeals to another at any time that there is

“good cause” for the transfer). This cause is currently before the Court on appellant's

third unopposed extension of time to file the brief.       The clerk’s record was filed on

February 3, 2014, and appellant’s brief was originally due to be filed thirty days thereafter.

See Tex. R. App. P. 38.6(a). This Court has previously granted appellant two extensions

of time totaling 181 days to file the brief, and appellant now seeks an additional 20 days,

until September 22, 2014, to file the brief.

       The Court GRANTS appellant’s third unopposed motion to file the brief and

ORDERS the Honorable Tracy D. Cluck to file the brief on or before September 22, 2014.

The Court looks with disfavor on the delay caused by counsel’s failure to timely file a brief

in this matter. No further extensions will be granted absent exigent circumstances. If

counsel fails to file the brief within the specified period of time, the Court will act

appropriately to ensure that appellant's rights are protected. See id. R. 38.8(b)(4).

                                                   PER CURIAM

Do not publish.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

Delivered and filed the
15th day of September, 2014.

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