COURT OF APPEALS

                                      SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                                   FORT WORTH

                                        NO. 2-08-397-CR

RALPH ALEXANDER FORREST                                               APPELLANT

                                                   V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS                                                                STATE

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         FROM COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 1 OF DENTON COUNTY

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                  MEMORANDUM OPINION^[1] AND JUDGMENT

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We have considered AAppellant=s Motion For Voluntary Dismissal Of Appeal.@  The motion complies with rule 42.2(a) of the rules of appellate procedure.  Tex. R. App. P. 42.2(a).  No decision of this court having been delivered before we received this motion, we grant the motion and dismiss the appeal.  See Tex. R. App. P. 42.2(a), 43.2(f).

PER CURIAM

PANEL:  DIXON W. HOLMAN, J. (Senior Justice, Retired, Sitting by Assignment); GARDNER and WALKER, JJ.

DO NOT PUBLISH

Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)

DELIVERED: January 8, 2009