Court Opinion

ID: 2942193
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-09-15 23:28:31.128795+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:57:28.789504
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF TEXAS

NO. PD-0276-08

ROBERTO YARIT TREJO, Appellant

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS

ON STATE'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
FROM THE FOURTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS

HARRIS  COUNTY

 Johnson, J., filed a concurring opinion.

C O N C U R R I N G   O P I N I O N

	Yet again, we consider a case in which a party has confused "jurisdiction" with "authority." 
As the opinion of the Court points out, the trial court had both subject-matter jurisdiction over the
offense and personal jurisdiction over appellant.  In that opinion, the state receives the right answer
to the wrong question; it appears that the state really wants to know whether the trial court had
authority to do what it did, but asks the question in terms of jurisdiction.  
	As the opinion of the Court states, "the trial court may have erred in its charge to the jury."
But if the alleged error was including the lesser offense of aggravated assault in the jury charge, the
question is first whether the indictment authorized the instruction and second, whether the evidence
supported giving the instruction, (1) not whether the district court has jurisdiction over a felony offense.
	I join the opinion of the Court.

Filed: April 1, 2009
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1.  Hall v. State, 225 S.W.3d 524, 535-36 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007).