Don Alfonso Williams v. State

Opinion

Order entered March 27, 2013

In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-12-00888-CR No. 05-12-00889-CR

DON ALFONSO WILLIAMS, Appellant

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 7 Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause Nos. F10-16710-Y, F10-16711-Y

ORDER The Court REINSTATES these appeals.

On December 19, 2012, the Court ordered the trial court to make findings regarding

whether the record in these appeals could be supplemented with the record of the transfer

proceedings from juvenile court to district court. We have received the supplemental reporter’s

record from the February 21, 2013 hearing on this issue. We ADOPT the trial court’s findings,

which are recited into the record, that: (1) appellant’s counsel Katherine Drew and Christa Dean

from the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office were able to put together the record of the

transfer proceedings; (2) the trial court took judicial notice of the documents the two attorneys

presented to the court; (3) the certification was properly done in juvenile court; (4) appellant waived his right to a hearing in juvenile court and agreed to be certified as an adult; and (5) the

documents are sufficient to prove the district court’s jurisdiction. The documents from the

certification proceedings are contained in the supplemental reporter’s record as State’s Exhibit

nos. 1, 2, and 3.

We ORDER appellant to file his brief within THIRTY DAYS of the date of this order.

/s/ DAVID EVANS JUSTICE