Court Opinion

ID: 9962941
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-04-24 09:17:47.399466+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:19:54.888671
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In the
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                   No. 06-23-00199-CR

          JOSHUA ELLIS SUTTON, Appellant

                            V.

           THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

         On Appeal from the 102nd District Court
                 Bowie County, Texas
             Trial Court No. 23F0053-102

      Before Stevens, C.J., van Cleef and Rambin, JJ.
        Memorandum Opinion by Justice Rambin
                                MEMORANDUM OPINION

       A Bowie County jury found Joshua Ellis Sutton guilty of possession of a controlled

substance in the amount of one gram or more but less than four grams, a third-degree felony. See

TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 481.115(c) (Supp.).                   The jury assessed Sutton’s

punishment at ten years’ imprisonment with a fine of $2,000.00. The trial court accepted the

jury’s assessment and sentenced Sutton in accordance with it.

       On appeal,1 Sutton raises two points of error: (1) the 102nd Judicial District Court did

not have jurisdiction because his indictment was out of the 202nd Judicial District Court, and (2)

his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to move to quash his indictment for lack of

jurisdiction. We addressed these issues in Sutton’s companion case in cause number 06-23-

00197-CR. For the reasons stated therein, we affirm Sutton’s conviction in this cause.

                                               Jeff Rambin
                                               Justice

Date Submitted:        April 5 ,2024
Date Decided:          April 19, 2024

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1
 In companion cause numbers 06-23-00197-CR, 06-23-00198-CR, 06-23-00200-CR, 06-23-00201-CR, and 06-23-
00202-CR, Sutton appeals five other convictions arising from the same set of facts at issue here.
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