COURT OF APPEALS

                                       SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                                   FORT WORTH

NO.   2-08-102-CR

LUTHOR DALE SIMPSON                                                      APPELLANT

                                                   V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS                                                                STATE

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        FROM CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 3 OF TARRANT COUNTY 

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MEMORANDUM OPINION^[1] AND JUDGMENT

ON PERMANENT ABATEMENT OF APPEAL

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We have considered appellant=s "Motion To Permanently Abate Appeal.@  A copy of the certificate of death states that appellant died on May 24, 2008.

The death of an appellant during the pendency of an appeal deprives this court of jurisdiction.  Molitor v. State, 862 S.W.2d 615, 616 (Tex. Crim. App. 1993).  Under these circumstances, the appropriate disposition is the permanent abatement of the appeal.  See TEX. R. APP. P. 7.1(a)(2).    

No decision of this court having been delivered prior to the receipt of this motion, the court finds the motion to permanently abate the appeal should be granted.  It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the appeal is permanently abated.

PER CURIAM

PANEL:  MCCOY, J.; CAYCE, C.J.; and LIVINGSTON, J.

DO NOT PUBLISH

TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b)

DELIVERED: August 26, 2008