Williams, Dennis v. State

                                                            COURT OF APPEALS

                                                    EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                                               EL PASO, TEXAS

 

DENNIS WILLIAMS,                                          )

                                                                              )               No.  08-02-00040-CR

Appellant,                          )

                                                                              )                    Appeal from the

v.                                                                           )

                                                                              )                 195th District Court

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                     )

                                                                              )              of Dallas County, Texas

Appellee.                           )

                                                                              )               (TC# F-9869928-IN)

                                                                              )

 

 

O P I N I O N

 

This is an appeal from an order revoking probation.  The offense is aggravated assault and the punishment is imprisonment for 25 years.  We affirm.


Appellant=s court-appointed counsel has filed a brief in which she has concluded that the appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit.  The brief meets the requirements of Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S. Ct. 1396, 18 L. Ed. 2d 493, reh. denied, 388 U.S. 924, 87 S. Ct. 2094, 18 L. Ed. 2d 1377 (1967), by presenting a professional evaluation of the record demonstrating why, in effect, there are no arguable grounds to be advanced.  See High v. State, 573 S.W.2d 807 (Tex.Crim.App. 1978); Currie v. State, 516 S.W.2d 684 (Tex.Crim.App. 1974); Jackson v. State, 485 S.W.2d 553 (Tex.Crim.App. 1972); Gainous v. State, 436 S.W.2d 137 (Tex.Crim.App. 1969).  A copy of counsel=s brief has been delivered to Appellant, and Appellant has been advised of his right to examine the appellate record and file a pro se brief.  No pro se brief has been filed.  The record reflects that Appellant entered a plea of Atrue@ to the State=s motion to revoke and judicially confessed to violating his probation.

We have carefully reviewed the record and counsel=s brief and agree that the appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit.  Further, we find nothing in the record that might arguably support the appeal.  A discussion of the contentions advanced in counsel's brief would add nothing to the jurisprudence of the state.

The judgment is affirmed.

 

 

 

September 12, 2002

DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Justice

 

Before Panel No. 1

Larsen, McClure, and Chew, JJ.

 

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