NUMBER 13-10-00052-CR

                                 COURT OF APPEALS

                     THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                         CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

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MICAH SPANUTIUS,                                                                     Appellant,

                                                             v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                                                 Appellee.

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                           On appeal from the 347th District Court

                                       of Nueces County, Texas.

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                                MEMORANDUM OPINION

     Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Garza and Benavides

                               Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

Appellant, Micah Spanutius, by and through his attorney, has filed a motion to withdraw his appeal because he no longer desires to prosecute it.  See Tex. R. App. P. 42.2(a).  Without passing on the merits of the case, we grant the motion to withdraw the appeal and pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 42.2(a), dismiss the appeal.  Having dismissed the appeal at appellant's request, no motion for rehearing will be entertained, and our mandate will issue forthwith.

PER CURIAM

Do not publish.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

Delivered and filed the

30th day of December, 2010.