Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-02-09 12:13:53.291202+00
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IN THE
                          TENTH COURT OF APPEALS

                                 No. 10-24-00030-CR

RONNEY JOE STANDIFER,
                                                            Appellant
v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,
                                                            Appellee

                            From the 19th District Court
                             McLennan County, Texas
                            Trial Court No. 2013-122-C1

                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Ronney Joe Standifer was convicted in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison. He

attempts to appeal the trial court’s Order, signed on January 23, 2024, denying Standifer’s

“Petitioner’s Omnibus Motions Submitted to this Court,” filed with the trial court on the

same date as the Order was signed, which requested the compulsion of certain people to

provide documents to Standifer so that Standifer could proceed with a petition for writ

of habeas corpus.

      The standard for determining jurisdiction is not whether the appeal is precluded
by law, but whether the appeal is authorized by law. Abbott v. State, 271 S.W.3d 694, 696

(Tex. Crim. App. 2008). We have not found any rule or any statutory or constitutional

provision that would authorize Standifer’s appeal from the trial court's Order signed on

January 23, 2024.

        Accordingly, the trial court’s January 23, 2024 Order is not appealable, we have no

jurisdiction to entertain Standifer's appeal, and the appeal is dismissed. See TEX. R. APP.

P. 26.2; Staley v. State, 233 S.W.3d 337, 338 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007).

                                           TOM GRAY
                                           Chief Justice

Before Chief Justice Gray,
       Justice Johnson, and
       Justice Smith
Appeal dismissed
Opinion delivered and filed February 8, 2024
Do not publish
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