Court Opinion

ID: 2882670
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-09-07 16:28:40.392479+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:31:40.018029
License: Public Domain

In The

Court of Appeals

Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

______________________________

No. 06-06-00158-CR
______________________________

FELIX LAROY HEARN, Appellant

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the Sixth Judicial District Court
Lamar County, Texas
Trial Court No. 20501

Before Morriss, C.J., Ross and Carter, JJ.
Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Morriss

MEMORANDUM OPINION

	Felix Laroy Hearn appeals from his conviction by the trial court for aggravated assault with
a deadly weapon.  Pursuant to a plea agreement, the trial court sentenced Hearn to ten years'
imprisonment.  We dismiss Hearn's appeal for want of jurisdiction.
	The trial court filed a certification, in accordance with Rule 25.2(a)(2), that this case "is a
plea-bargain case, and the Defendant has NO right of appeal"  and also stating "the defendant has
waived the right of appeal."  Rule 25.2(a)(2) states, in pertinent part: 
		(2) . . . A defendant in a criminal case has the right of appeal under Code of
Criminal Procedure article 44.02 and these rules.  The trial court shall enter a
certification of the defendant's right of appeal in every case in which it enters a
judgment of guilt or other appealable order.

Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2).  If a certification showing that the defendant has the right of appeal is not
made a part of the appellate record, we must dismiss the case unless the record affirmatively
indicates that an appellant may have the right of appeal.  Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d); see Greenwell v.
Court of Appeals for Thirteenth Judicial Dist., 159 S.W.3d 645, 649 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005); Dears
v. State, 154 S.W.3d 610, 612 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005).  We have examined the clerk's record to
determine whether the trial court's certification is defective.  See Dears, 154 S.W.3d at 613.  Nothing
in the record indicates the certification is defective. This Court lacks jurisdiction over this appeal. 

	We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

						Josh R. Morriss, III
						Chief Justice

Date Submitted:	October 24, 2006
Date Decided:		October 25, 2006

Do Not Publish