Jaime Joel Flores v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: March 16, 2017
• Docket: 01-16-00697-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

Opinion issued March 16, 2017

In The

Court of Appeals For The

First District of Texas ———————————— NO. 01-16-00697-CR ——————————— JAIME JOEL FLORES, Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the 177th District Court Harris County, Texas Trial Court Case No. 1459301

MEMORANDUM OPINION

On August 24, 2016, the trial court sentenced appellant, Jaime Joel Flores, to

17 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice

for the first-degree-felony offense of murder. On the same day, appellant filed a

notice of appeal. On September 16, 2016, appellant timely filed a motion for new trial. The clerk’s record contains an order that shows that the trial court granted the

motion for new trial. The granting of a motion for new trial restores the case to its

position before the former trial. See TEX. R. APP P. 21.9(b). The appeal was

rendered moot by the order granting a new trial. See id.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal as moot. See TEX. R. APP. P. 43.2(f). We

dismiss any pending motions as moot.

We direct the Clerk to issue the mandate within 10 days of the date of this

opinion. See TEX. R. APP. P. 18.1.

PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Chief Justice Radack and Justices Brown and Lloyd.

Do not publish. TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).