Court Opinion

ID: 3007680
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-10-07 13:14:42.188063+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:00:41.685960
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                          ON REHEARING

                                        NO. 03-15-00566-CR

                                   David Eugene Weir, Appellant

                                                    v.

                                    The State of Texas, Appellee

      FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY, 264TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
          NO. 73,136, HONORABLE MARTHA J. TRUDO, JUDGE PRESIDING

                              MEMORANDUM OPINION

                We withdraw the opinion and judgment dated September 28, 2015, and substitute the

following opinion and judgment in their place.

                Appellant David Eugene Weir, who has not yet been finally sentenced and is

appearing pro se, has filed a notice of appeal from the trial court’s denial of his court-appointed

attorney’s motion to withdraw. We do not have jurisdiction over such an interlocutory appeal. In

criminal cases, an appeal is authorized only when a trial court “enters a judgment of guilt or other

appealable order.” Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2); see Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 44.02 (“A defendant

in any criminal action has the right of appeal under the rules hereinafter prescribed . . . .”). Appellate

courts do not have jurisdiction to review interlocutory orders unless that jurisdiction has been

expressly authorized by law.       Abbott v. State, 271 S.W.3d 694, 696-07 (Tex. Crim. App.
2008); Apolinar v. State, 820 S.W.2d 792, 794 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991); Ex parte Shumake,

953 S.W.2d 842, 844 (Tex. App.—Austin 1997, no pet.). In this case, no rule or statutory or

constitutional provision authorizes an interlocutory appeal from a court’s order on an attorney’s

motion to withdraw. Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App.

P. 43.2(f).

                                             __________________________________________
                                             Cindy Olson Bourland, Justice

Before Justices Puryear, Goodwin, and Bourland

Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction on Rehearing

Filed: October 7, 2015

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