COURT OF APPEALS

EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

EL PASO, TEXAS

MEMORANDUM OPINION

            This appeal is before the Court on its own motion to determine whether it should be dismissed. Because Appellant has not filed a brief or a motion for extension of time, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution.

            On September 24, 2010, the clerk of this Court notified Appellant that his brief was past due and that no motion for extension of time had been received. The clerk also informed the parties of the Court’s intent to dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution unless, within ten days of the notice, a party responded showing grounds to continue the appeal. To this date, no one has responded to the clerk’s letter.

            This Court has the authority to dismiss an appeal for want of prosecution when the appellant has failed to file his brief in the time prescribed and gives no reasonable explanation for the failure to do so. Tex.R.App.P. 38.8(a)(1); Elizondo v. City of San Antonio, 975 S.W.2d 61, 63 (Tex.App.--San Antonio 1998, no pet.). Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution.

November 30, 2010                                                    

                                                                                    ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Justice

Before Chew, C.J., McClure, and Rivera, JJ.