COURT OF APPEALS

                                                    EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                                               EL PASO, TEXAS

JOSEPH LINO BARELA,                                    )

                                                                              )               No.  08-02-00496-CR

Appellant,                          )

                                                                              )                    Appeal from the

v.                                                                           )

                                                                              )                384th District Court

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                     )

                                                                              )            of El Paso County, Texas

Appellee.                           )

                                                                              )               (TC# 20000D04685)

                                                                              )

MEMORANDUM   OPINION

Pending before the Court is Appellant=s motion to dismiss this appeal pursuant to 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 and his attorney have filed and signed the motion to dismiss.  Appellant having 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.

January 16, 2003

DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Justice

Before Panel No. 3

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

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