Order entered March 27, 2013
In The
Court of Appeals
Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
No. 05-12-00888-CR
No. 05-12-00889-CR
DON ALFONSO WILLIAMS, Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
On Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 7
Dallas County, Texas
Trial Court Cause Nos. F10-16710-Y, F10-16711-Y
ORDER
The Court REINSTATES these appeals.
On December 19, 2012, the Court ordered the trial court to make findings regarding
whether the record in these appeals could be supplemented with the record of the transfer
proceedings from juvenile court to district court. We have received the supplemental reporter’s
record from the February 21, 2013 hearing on this issue. We ADOPT the trial court’s findings,
which are recited into the record, that: (1) appellant’s counsel Katherine Drew and Christa Dean
from the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office were able to put together the record of the
transfer proceedings; (2) the trial court took judicial notice of the documents the two attorneys
presented to the court; (3) the certification was properly done in juvenile court; (4) appellant
waived his right to a hearing in juvenile court and agreed to be certified as an adult; and (5) the
documents are sufficient to prove the district court’s jurisdiction. The documents from the
certification proceedings are contained in the supplemental reporter’s record as State’s Exhibit
nos. 1, 2, and 3.
We ORDER appellant to file his brief within THIRTY DAYS of the date of this order.
/s/ DAVID EVANS
JUSTICE