Christian Neville Knight v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: August 21, 2008
• Docket: 14-07-00615-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

Affirmed and Memorandum Opinion filed August 21, 2008

Affirmed and Memorandum Opinion filed August 21, 2008.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-07-00615-CR

CHRISTIAN NEVILLE KNIGHT, Appellant

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the 179th District Court

Harris County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 1101223

M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

A jury convicted appellant of the offense of possession of a controlled substance.  Appellant entered a plea of true to two enhancement paragraphs and the jury sentenced appellant to confinement for forty-five years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.  Appellant filed a notice of appeal.

Appellant=s appointed counsel filed a brief in which he concludes the appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit. The brief meets the requirement of Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396 (1967), presenting a professional evaluation of the record demonstrating why there are no arguable grounds to be advanced.  See High v. State, 573 S.W.2d 807 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978).

A copy of counsel=s brief was delivered to appellant.  Appellant was advised of the right to examine the appellate record and file a pro se response.  See Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 510 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991).  At appellant=s request, the record was provided to him.  On July 3, 2008, appellant filed a pro se response to counsel=s brief.

We have carefully reviewed the record, counsel=s brief, and appellant=s response, and agree the appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit.  Further, we find no reversible error in the record.  A discussion of the brief would add nothing to the jurisprudence of the state.  We are not to address the merits of each claim raised in an Anders brief or a pro se response when we have determined there are no arguable grounds for review.  See Bledsoe v. State, 178 S.W.3d 824, 827-28 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005). 

Accordingly, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

PER CURIAM

Judgment rendered and Memorandum Opinion filed August 21, 2008.

Panel consists of Justices Anderson, Fowler, and Frost.

Do Not Publish C Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b).