FILED FOR RECORD 20\5 SEP 23 ~I'\ \O: 45 "'\~· ;'__.:;~.;,.~;G'.~ CAUSE NO. Fl 4284 "01¥i'p,\~( .~s EP'fxr,s MP,P.\Oll co0,11"1 'P STATE OF TEXAS IN THE DISTRICTCd0RT FILED IN '3.~o~ .

6th COURT OF APPEALS TEXARKANA, TEXAS vs. 276TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT 9/23/2015 2:12:47 PM NICHOLAS EDWARD AYERS DEBBIETEXAS MARION COUNTY, AUTREY Clerk NOTICE OF APPEAL TO SAID HONORABLE COURT: COMES NOW Nicholas Edward Ayers, defendant in the above styled and numbered cause, and gives notice of appeal from the sentence imposed against him in this cause on August 27, 2015, all pursuant to Rule 25.2, Rules of Appellate Procedure, and further shows that this is an appeal from a bench trial in which Defendant pleaded guilty and his punishment was assessed by the court at eighteen years confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

WHEREFORE, defendant requests the Clerk to file this notice of appeal and immediately send one copy to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Judicial District and one copy to the State's attorney and that the Clerk prepare a Clerk's Record in accordance with Rule 34.5(a)(2), Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure, to be sent to the Clerk of the Court of Appeals.

Respectfully submitted,

~ Counsel for Defendant S. Marshall, P.O. Box 276 Jefferson, Texas 75657 903-665-7111 Fax: 903-665-7167 Texas Bar #07038000

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that I have hand delivered a true copy of the foregoing Notice of Appeal to Angela Smoak, counsel for the State, on this 23rd day of September, 2015.

~~~ James P. Finstrom