NUMBER 13-13-00200-CR COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG ____________________________________________________________ VENICES ALVIN HAWKINS, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee. ____________________________________________________________ On appeal from the 426th District Court of Bell County, Texas. ____________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Garza and Perkes Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam Appellant, Venices Alvin Hawkins, 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Do not publish.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 25th day of July, 2013.