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Ex Parte Carline

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, Houston
May 21, 2009
No. 14-09-00208-CR (Tex. App. May. 21, 2009)

Opinion

No. 14-09-00208-CR

Opinion filed May 21, 2009. DO NOT PUBLISH — TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

On Appeal from the 230th District Court, Harris County, Texas, Trial Court Cause No. 1200702.

Panel consists of Chief Justice HEDGES and Justices YATES and FROST.


MEMORANDUM OPINION


Appellant was charged with manufacturing with intent to deliver between 28 and 400 grams of a controlled substance. Appellant filed a pre-trial application for writ of habeas corpus asking the trial court to set a reasonable bond. The trial court set pre-trial bond at $200,000 and dismissed the application. Appellant then filed a notice of appeal. On May 12, 2009, appellant filed a motion to dismiss the appeal because the issues in this appeal have been rendered moot. According to the motion, appellant entered a guilty plea to possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced to confinement for two years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Appellant's plea 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.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1991, no pet.) (stating that "where the premise of a habeas corpus application is destroyed by subsequent developments, the legal issues raised thereunder are rendered moot"). Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal as moot.


Summaries of

Ex Parte Carline

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, Houston
May 21, 2009
No. 14-09-00208-CR (Tex. App. May. 21, 2009)
Case details for

Ex Parte Carline

Case Details

Full title:EX PARTE GERALD DWAYNE CARLINE

Court:Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, Houston

Date published: May 21, 2009

Citations

No. 14-09-00208-CR (Tex. App. May. 21, 2009)