NUMBER 13-10-00540-CR COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG ____________________________________________________________ JESUS CHAVIRA MENDEZ, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee. ____________________________________________________________ On appeal from the Criminal District Court of Jefferson County, Texas. ____________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Perkes Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam Appellant, Jesus Chavira Mendez, by and through his attorney, has filed an amended 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 amended 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PER CURIAM Do not publish.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 24th day of February, 2011.