COURT OF APPEALS

EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

EL PASO, TEXAS

VICTOR NATHANIEL JOHNSON,                   )

                                                                              )               No.  08-03-00273-CR

Appellant,                          )

                                                                              )                    Appeal from the

v.                                                                           )

                                                                              )                142nd District Court

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                     )

                                                                              )            of Midland County, Texas

Appellee.                           )

                                                                              )                  (TC# CR-27851)

                                                                              )

MEMORANDUM   OPINION

Pending before the Court is Appellant=s withdrawal of the notice of appeal and motion to dismiss.  Such action is appropriate under Tex.R.App.P. 42.2(a), which states that:

(a)        At any time before the appellate court=s decision, the appellate court may dismiss the appeal if the party that appealed withdraws its notice of appeal--by filing a written withdrawal in duplicate with the appellate clerk,  who must immediately send the duplicate copy to the trial court clerk.  An appellant must personally sign the written withdrawal.

Appellant has complied with the requirements of Rule 42.2(a).  The Court has considered this cause on Appellant=s motion and concludes the motion should be granted and the appeal should be dismissed.  We therefore dismiss the appeal.

July 29, 2003

DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Justice

Before Panel No. 3

Barajas, C.J., Larsen, and Chew, JJ.

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