TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN
NO. 03-02-00452-CR
In re Michael Earl Cruthird Sr.
FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY, 27TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. 47,106, HONORABLE MARTHA J. TRUDO, JUDGE PRESIDING
MEMORANDUM OPINION
This is a post-conviction DNA testing proceeding. Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. arts.
64.01-.05 (West Supp. 2003). Appellant, who was convicted of capital murder, has filed a motion to
abate the appeal pointing out that it should have been filed in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Id. art.
64.05 (in Acapital case,@ appeal is to court of criminal appeals). We agree, but believe that the proper
remedy is to dismiss this appeal. Therefore, we dismiss the motion to abate, dismiss this appeal, and
instruct the Clerk to deliver the record to the clerk of the court of criminal appeals.
David Puryear, Justice
Before Chief Justice Law, Justices B. A. Smith and Puryear
Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction
Filed: February 6, 2003
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