Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-02-08 09:14:54.439361+00
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In The
                              Court of Appeals
                     Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo

                                    No. 07-24-00040-CR

                             EX PARTE CHRISTINE CURRY

                             On Appeal from the County Court
                                 Deaf Smith County, Texas
                 Trial Court No. 19-0441, Honorable D.J. Wagner, Presiding

                                     January 31, 2024
                             MEMORANDUM OPINION
                     Before PARKER and DOSS and YARBROUGH, JJ.

       Appellant, Christine Curry, filed a notice of appeal from a Judgment of Contempt,

wherein the trial court fined her one hundred dollars after she failed to appear as a witness

for the State on October 30, 2023. Contempt orders, however, are not reviewable by

direct appeal, regardless of whether the contempt finding is made in a separate judgment

or included with other matters in a final judgment subject to appeal. See Musgrove v.

State, 156 Tex. Crim. 606, 606–07 (1952); Johnson v. Clark, Nos. 07-11-00122-CV, 07-

11-00334-CV, 2011 Tex. App. LEXIS 8593, at *3–4 (Tex. App.—Amarillo Oct. 28, 2011,

no pet.) (mem. op.). Instead, a contempt order is reviewable only by a petition for writ of

habeas corpus if the contemnor is confined or a petition for writ of mandamus if no
confinement is involved. See Johnson, 2011 Tex. App. LEXIS 8593, at *3–4; Collins v.

Kegans, 802 S.W.2d 702, 705 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991) (orig. proceeding).

        Because we are without jurisdiction to review the Judgment of Contempt, we

dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.1

                                                                Per Curiam

Do not publish.

        1 By letter of January 12, 2024, we directed Appellant to show how we have jurisdiction over this

appeal. However, Appellant has failed to file a response showing grounds for continuing the appeal.
                                                   2