Court Opinion

ID: 9381508
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Date Created: 2023-03-23 07:09:15.481028+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:33.126987
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In The
                             Court of Appeals
                    Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo

                                   No. 07-23-00085-CV

                           SHAWN L. DUNN, APPELLANT

                                            V.

                   MAJOR LEO RAMIREZ, DR. KOEHN, AND
               CORRECTION OFFICER CONNIE PIEDRA, APPELLEES

                             On Appeal from the County Court
                                    Gray County, Texas
                       Trial Court No. 5456, Chris Porter, Presiding

                                    March 22, 2023
                           MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before QUINN, C.J., and PARKER and YARBROUGH, JJ.

      Appellant, Shawn L. Dunn, appearing pro se, appeals from the trial court’s Order

of Dismissal. The trial court signed the order on November 8, 2022. As no motion for

new trial or motion to modify the judgment was filed, a notice of appeal was due within

thirty days thereafter, by December 8, 2022. See TEX. R. APP. P. 26.1(a). Dunn filed a

notice of appeal on February 24, 2023.
        A timely notice of appeal is essential to invoking this Court’s jurisdiction. See TEX.

R. APP. P. 25.1(b), 26.1; Verburgt v. Dorner, 959 S.W.2d 615, 616–17 (Tex. 1997). By

letter of March 2, 2023, we notified Dunn that his notice of appeal appeared untimely and

directed him to show how we have jurisdiction over the appeal. Dunn filed a response

but has not demonstrated grounds for continuing the appeal.1

        Accordingly, we dismiss Dunn’s untimely appeal for want of jurisdiction. TEX. R.

APP. P. 42.3(a).

                                                                   Per Curiam

        1  In his letter to the Court, Dunn references filings and an order issued in a case before a justice
court. To the extent Dunn seeks to appeal an order signed by a justice of the peace, we are without
appellate jurisdiction. See Crumpton v. Stevens, 936 S.W.2d 473, 476 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 1996, no
writ) (“An appeal from a justice court judgment is tried de novo in the county or district court.”).

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