Ex Parte Jonathan Bradford Williams

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: February 26, 2004
• Docket: 14-03-00482-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed February 26, 2004

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed February 26, 2004.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-03-00482-CR

EX PARTE JONATHAN BRADFORD WILLIAMS

On Appeal from the 183rd District Court

Harris County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 942,797

M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

Appellant was charged with the offenses of criminally negligent homicide in trial court number 925,970, escape in trial court number 925,971, and failure to stop and render aid in trial court number 934,869.  The trial court set pre-trial bond at $100,000 in cause number 924,970, $100,000 in cause number 925,971, and $50,000 in cause number 934,869.  Appellant filed a pre-trial application for writ of habeas corpus seeking bond reduction.  On March 28, 2003, the trial court granted partial relief and set bail at $50,000 in cause number 925,970.  The bonds in the other two cases remained the same.  Appellant filed a pro se notice of appeal.

On June 26, 2003, the trial court dismissed cause number 925,970, the criminally negligent homicide charge, and re-filed the case under cause number 952,421.  Appellant then entered a guilty plea without an agreed recommendation on punishment in cause number 952,421.  Appellant=s appeal in cause number 952,421 is currently pending in this court under our number 14-03-01214-CR.  This court has been advised that the indictments in trial court numbers 925,971 and 934,869 were also dismissed, but were not re-filed.  Appellant=s plea and the dismissal of his other charges renders the issue of pretrial bond moot.  See Ex parte Morgan, 335 S.W.2d 766, 766 (Tex. Crim. App. 1960); Ex parte Bennet, 818 S.W.2d 199, 200 (Tex. App.CHouston [14th Dist.] 1991, no pet.) (stating that Awhere the premise of a habeas corpus application is destroyed by subsequent developments, the legal issues raised thereunder are rendered moot.@). 

Accordingly, we dismiss appellant=s appeal as moot. 

PER CURIAM

Judgment rendered and Memorandum Opinion filed February 26, 2004.

Panel consists of Justices Fowler, Edelman and Seymore.

Do Not Publish C Tex.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