COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT HOUSTON ORDER ON MOTION Cause number: 01-18-00858-CR Style: Thurston Rickey-Lee Davis v. The State of Texas Date motion filed*: March 12, 2019 Type of motion: Notice of Acknowledgement of Substitution of Counsel Party filing motion: Appellant’s appointed counsel, Natalie Lynn Schultz, and retained Counsel, Garrick A. Farria Document to be filed: Notice to pro se appellant Is appeal accelerated? No. Ordered that motion is:  Granted  Denied  Dismissed (e.g., want of jurisdiction, moot)  Other: _____________________________________ Appellant’s appointed counsel’s notice of acknowledgement of substitution of counsel, construed with retained counsel’s prior notice of appearance as a motion to substitute counsel, is granted because they were signed by both new and withdrawing counsel.

See TEX. R. APP. P. 6.5(d). Accordingly, the Clerk of this Court is directed to remove Natalie Lynn Schultz, as counsel for appellant and to designate Garrick A. Farria as lead counsel. Withdrawing counsel Schultz is ordered to mail a copy of the notice and this order to the pro se appellant via certified and first-class mail and file notice with the Clerk of this Court within 10 days of the date of this order. See id. 6.5(b), (d).

Judge’s signature: ___/s/ Justice Evelyn V. Keyes_______ x Acting individually Acting for the Court Date: __March 19, 2019_______

November 7, 2008 Revision