Opinion filed March 25, 2010

                                                                       In The

  Eleventh Court of Appeals

                                                                   __________

                                                           No. 11-09-00063-CR

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                         MARK EMMONS MCLAUGHLAN, Appellant

                                                             V.

                                       STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                                   On Appeal from the 29th District Court

                                                         Palo Pinto County, Texas

                                                      Trial Court Cause No. 13695

                                            M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

            Counsel for Mark Emmons McLaughlan has filed in this court a motion to permanently abate appeal.  Attached to the motion is the autopsy report.  The motion is granted, and the appeal is permanently abated.  Tex. R. App. P. 7.1(a)(2).

March 25, 2010                                                                       PER CURIAM

Do not publish.  See Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b).

Panel consists of:  Wright, C.J.,

McCall, J., and Strange, J.