Court Opinion

ID: 9602620
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:57:33.551452+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:05.192715
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE LACY,
concurring:
I concur in the majority opinion in this case and write simply to clarify my understanding of that holding regarding this Court’s jurisdiction to consider the assignment of error raised by the Commonwealth.
The issue before this Court today is whether, in an appeal by a defendant from a decision of the Court of Appeals in a criminal case, this Court has the appellate jurisdiction to consider a cross-error raised by the Commonwealth. The answer to this question is straightforward and plain. The Constitution and statutes are the source of this Court’s appellate jurisdiction. There is nothing in either which creates appellate jurisdiction of this type in this Court. Consequently, this Court does not have the jurisdiction to consider *188the cross-error asserted by the Commonwealth. As there is no statute conferring such jurisdiction, we are not faced with resolving the validity of such a statute and I do not read the majority opinion to do so.