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Boone v. State

COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH
Jun 15, 2017
NO. 02-17-00066-CV (Tex. App. Jun. 15, 2017)

Opinion

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06-15-2017

MARCUS EUGENE BOONE APPELLANT v. THE STATE OF TEXAS APPELLEE


FROM THE 372ND DISTRICT COURT OF TARRANT COUNTY
TRIAL COURT NOS. 1413540D, 1413538D, 1413539D, 1412646D, 1411974D MEMORANDUM OPINION

Because Appellant Marcus Eugene Boone has now received from the trial court the relief he sought on appeal, we dismiss these appeals as moot.

Appellant timely filed a notice of appeal from each of the trial court's judgments, but he filed an appellate brief complaining only of the corresponding orders to withdraw, also known as withdrawal notifications. See Palomo v. State, 322 S.W.3d 304, 307-08 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2010, order), disp. on merits, 330 S.W.3d 920 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2010, no pet.). Appellant's sole concern was that the amount of court costs in each order to withdraw was the cumulative total of court costs for all five cases.

Because each notice of appeal indicates that Appellant is appealing from a judgment in a court which gives preference to criminal cases, see Tex. Gov't Code Ann. § 24.517 (West 2004), this court originally docketed these cases as criminal appeals. When the court reviewed the parties' briefs and discovered that Appellant raised only a civil issue, see Harrell v. State, 286 S.W.3d 315, 319 (Tex. 2009), the court administratively closed the criminal docket numbers assigned to these cases and instead assigned the current civil docket numbers. We note that unlike these cases, the cases Appellant cited in his brief for the proposition that we may modify an order to withdraw funds in a criminal appeal included punishment issues, Wordlaw v. State, Nos. 02-14-00286-CR, 02-14-00287-CR, 2015 WL 505231, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Feb. 5, 2015, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication), or were Anders cases requiring the court's independent review of the entire record, Browne v. State, Nos. 02-14-00363-CR, 02-14-00364-CR, 2015 WL 5770501, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Oct. 1, 2015, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication); Haney v. State, No. 02-14-00238-CR, 2015 WL 3458229, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth May 28, 2015, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication).

"Because the trial court ha[d] not entered an appealable order either granting or denying a motion to confirm, modify, correct, or rescind the . . . withdrawal notification," id. at 307, this court determined that the notice of appeal in each case was premature. See id. The court therefore abated the appeals for ninety days to allow Appellant time (1) to notify the trial court of any alleged error by filing, as appropriate, a motion to modify, correct, or rescind the order to withdraw funds in each case; (2) to present that motion to the trial court; (3) to schedule any necessary hearing; and (4) to obtain from the trial court a written, appealable order disposing of the motion in each case. See id. at 307-08.

We have received a supplemental clerk's record in each case containing Appellant's motion to modify or eliminate the withholding order and the trial court's order granting Appellant's motion, striking the original withholding order in each case, and replacing the order in trial court cause number 1413540D (appellate cause number 02-17-00064-CR) with Appellant's proposed order "consolidating the prior orders entered in the causes . . . into a single [o]rder."

Because Appellant has now received all the relief he sought on appeal, we dismiss these appeals as moot. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

PER CURIAM PANEL: PITTMAN, J.; LIVINGSTON, C.J.; and WALKER, J. DELIVERED: June 15, 2017


Summaries of

Boone v. State

COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH
Jun 15, 2017
NO. 02-17-00066-CV (Tex. App. Jun. 15, 2017)
Case details for

Boone v. State

Case Details

Full title:MARCUS EUGENE BOONE APPELLANT v. THE STATE OF TEXAS APPELLEE

Court:COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH

Date published: Jun 15, 2017

Citations

NO. 02-17-00066-CV (Tex. App. Jun. 15, 2017)