Court Opinion

ID: 9715641
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 06:10:36.674989+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:36.501111
License: Public Domain

Opinion filed August 24, 2023

                                       In The

        Eleventh Court of Appeals
                                    ___________

                                No. 11-23-00156-CR
                                    ___________

                 DAVID ANDREW JACKSON, Appellant
                                          V.
                     THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                     On Appeal from the 358th District Court
                              Ector County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. D-21-1753-CR

                      MEMORANDUM OPINION
      Appellant, David Andrew Jackson, filed a pro se notice of appeal from the
trial court’s order of dismissal in this cause. We dismiss the appeal.
      When this appeal was docketed, the clerk of this court wrote Appellant and
informed him that it did not appear that Appellant’s notice of appeal related to a final
appealable order. We requested that Appellant respond and show grounds to
continue the appeal. Appellant has responded, but he has not shown grounds upon
which this appeal may continue.
      An appellate court has jurisdiction to consider an appeal by a criminal
defendant from a final judgment of conviction or as otherwise authorized by law.
Abbott v. State, 271 S.W.3d 694, 696–97 (Tex. Crim. App. 2008). Appellant’s notice
of appeal relates to the trial court’s order dismissing cause number D-21-1753-CR
based on the State’s motion. In its motion, the State requested that the trial court
dismiss the criminal action pending against Appellant because he had been
sentenced to forty-six months in federal prison by the United States District Court
for the District of Wyoming. Because the trial court’s order dismissing Appellant’s
case is not an appealable order and an appeal is not otherwise authorized by
law, we do not have jurisdiction to address Appellant’s appeal. Munguia v. State,
No. 11-18-00059-CR, 2018 WL 1546233, at *1 (Tex. App.—Eastland 2018, no
pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication); McCray v. State, No. 01-12-00969-
CR, 2013 WL 6047614, at *1 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] Nov. 14, 2013,
no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication).
      Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction.

                                               W. STACY TROTTER
                                               JUSTICE

August 24, 2023
Do not publish. See TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).
Panel consists of: Bailey, C.J.,
Trotter, J., and Williams, J.

                                          2