Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-05-04 18:12:22.362737+00
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NUMBER 13-24-00146-CR

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG

                 EX PARTE JORGE ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ

             ON APPEAL FROM THE 103RD DISTRICT COURT
                   OF CAMERON COUNTY, TEXAS

                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

    Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Longoria and Peña
           Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Contreras

      Proceeding pro se, appellant Jorge Alberto Rodriguez filed a notice of appeal in

this Court seeking to set aside a ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denying

appellant’s application for writ of habeas corpus without a written order. On March 14,

2024, the Clerk of this Court notified appellant that it appeared that there was no final,

appealable order, advised appellant to correct this defect, if possible, and informed

appellant that the appeal would be dismissed if the defect was not corrected. See TEX. R.

APP. P. 37.1. Appellant did not respond to the Clerk’s directive and did not otherwise
correct the defect in his appeal. Appellant did, however, file a motion requesting us to

command the trial court to provide written findings of fact and conclusions of law.

       A defendant’s right to appeal in a criminal case is provided by statute. Dorsey v.

State, 662 S.W.3d 451, 452 (Tex. Crim. App. 2021); Griffin v. State, 145 S.W.3d 645, 646

(Tex. Crim. App. 2004). “Texas Code Criminal Procedure Article 44.02 establishes a

defendant’s right to appeal and Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 25.2 specifies the

procedures to follow, consistent with that statutory grant of appeal.” Dorsey, 662 S.W,2d

at 451; see TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 44.02 (“[a] defendant in any criminal action

has the right of appeal under the rules hereinafter prescribed”); TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2 (a

defendant “has the right of appeal under Code of Criminal Procedure article 44.02 and

these rules” in every case in which the trial court “enters a judgment of guilt or other

appealable order”).

       There is no statute, rule, or other authority which would grant us jurisdiction to

review the ruling of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denying appellant’s application

for writ of habeas corpus. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal and appellant’s pending

motion for lack of jurisdiction.

                                                              DORI CONTRERAS
                                                              Chief Justice

Do not publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed on the
2nd day of May, 2024.

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