NUMBER 13-10-00540-CR

                                 COURT OF APPEALS

                     THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                         CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

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JESUS CHAVIRA MENDEZ,                                                        Appellant,

                                                             v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                                                 Appellee.

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                        On appeal from the Criminal District Court

                                     of Jefferson County, Texas.

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                                      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Do not publish.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.