COURT OF APPEALS
SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH
NO. 02-16-00349-CR
JAMES G. MITCHELL APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS STATE
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FROM CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 4 OF TARRANT COUNTY
TRIAL COURT NO. 1404378D
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MEMORANDUM OPINION1
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Appellant James G. Mitchell attempts to appeal from his plea-bargained
conviction and ten-year sentence for continuous violence against a family
member.2 With the assistance of counsel, appellant entered into a plea bargain
and judicially confessed to that offense. The trial court accepted appellant’s
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See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
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See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 25.11(a) (West 2011).
guilty plea, convicted him, and sentenced him to the agreed term of ten years.
Appellant and his counsel signed a certification stating that appellant had entered
into a plea bargain and had “NO right of appeal.” Nonetheless, a few days later,
appellant filed a pro se notice of appeal.
After we received the notice of appeal, we sent a letter to appellant in
which we reminded him of the statement in the certification and informed him that
we would dismiss the appeal unless he showed grounds for continuing it. See
Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2), (d), 44.3. Appellant responded to our letter, but his
response did not show adequate grounds for continuing the appeal. Thus, we
dismiss the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d), 43.2(f); Chavez v. State, 183
S.W.3d 675, 680 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006).
PER CURIAM
PANEL: LIVINGSTON, C.J.; WALKER and MEIER, JJ.
DO NOT PUBLISH
Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)
DELIVERED: October 27, 2016
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