NUMBER 13-12-00708-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG ____________________________________________________________ EDUARDO A. TREVINO, Appellant, v. CHERYL LAWSON, CHARLES E. MONROE, NORRIS JACKSON, TAMRA MCCOLLUCH, SANDRA CASTENADA, Appellees. ____________________________________________________________ On appeal from the 343rd District Court of Bee County, Texas. ____________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Benavides and Perkes Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam Appellant, Eduardo A. Trevino, filed an appeal from a judgment entered by the 343rd District Court of Bee County, Texas, in cause number B-12-1124-CV-C. Appellant has filed a motion to withdraw the appeal and requests that this Court withdraw the appeal without prejudice.

The Court, having considered the documents on file and appellant=s motion to withdraw the appeal, is of the opinion that the motion should be granted. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.1(a). Appellant=s motion to withdraw is GRANTED, and the appeal is hereby DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. Costs will be taxed against appellant. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.1(d) ("Absent agreement of the parties, the court will tax costs against the appellant."). Having dismissed the appeal at appellant=s request, no motion for rehearing will be entertained, and our mandate will issue forthwith. Any pending motions are dismissed as moot.

PER CURIAM Delivered and filed the 17th day of January, 2013.