Cornelius Davis v. State

Affirmed and Memorandum Opinion filed December 3, 2009.

 

 

In The

 

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-08-00576-CR

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CORNELIUS DAVIS, Appellant

 

V.

 

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

 

 

On Appeal from the 179th District Court

Harris County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 1094462

 

 

M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

A jury convicted appellant of the offense of felon in possession of a weapon.  Appellant entered a plea of true to two enhancement paragraphs.  On June 18, 2008, the trial court sentenced appellant to confinement for thirty-five years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.  Appellant filed a notice of appeal.


Appellant=s appointed counsel filed a brief in which he concludes the appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit. The brief meets the requirement of Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S. Ct. 1396 (1967), presenting a professional evaluation of the record demonstrating why there are no arguable grounds to be advanced.  See High v. State, 573 S.W.2d 807 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978).

A copy of counsel=s brief was delivered to appellant.  Appellant was advised of the right to examine the appellate record and file a pro se response.  See Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 510 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991).  At appellant=s request, the record was provided to him.  On July 31, 2009, appellant filed a pro se response to counsel=s brief.

We have carefully reviewed the record, counsel=s brief, and appellant=s response, and agree the appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit.  Further, we find no reversible error in the record.  A discussion of the brief would add nothing to the jurisprudence of the state.  We are not to address the merits of each claim raised in an Anders brief or a pro se response when we have determined there are no arguable grounds for review.  See Bledsoe v. State, 178 S.W.3d 824, 827-28 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005). 

Accordingly, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

 

PER CURIAM

 

 

Panel consists of Justices Seymore, Brown, and Sullivan.

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