Travis Moates v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: March 29, 2012
• Docket: 13-11-00576-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

NUMBER 13-11-00576-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG ____________________________________________________________

TRAVIS MOATES, Appellant,

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee. ____________________________________________________________

On appeal from the 444th District Court of Cameron County, Texas. ____________________________________________________________

MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Garza Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

Appellant, Travis Moates, appealed a judgment entered by the 444th District Court

of Cameron County, Texas. On September 12, 2011, the Clerk of this Court notified

appellant that the notice of appeal failed to comply with Texas Rule of Appellate

Procedure 25.1(d)(2) and 9.5(e). See TEX. R. APP. P. 9.5(e). The Clerk directed

appellant to file an amended notice of appeal with the district clerk's office within 30 days from the date of that notice. On January 23, 2012, the Clerk notified appellant that the

defect had not been corrected and warned appellant that the appeal would be dismissed

if the defects were not cured within ten days. Appellant has failed to correct the defects

or otherwise respond to the Court's notices.

On its own motion, with ten days notice to the parties, an appellate court may

dismiss a civil appeal for want of prosecution or failure to comply with a notice from the

clerk requiring a response or other action within a specified time. See Tex. R. App. P.

42.3(b),(c). Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution and failure to

comply with a notice from the Court. See id.

PER CURIAM

Delivered and filed the 29th day of March, 2012.