Court Opinion

ID: 9655208
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:02:36.777277+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:16.603857
License: Public Domain

TOM GRAY, Chief Justice,
concurring.
“Yeah, everything that guy just said is [dicta].... ” My Cousin Vinny (Twentieth Century Fox 1992)(motion picture).
The proceeding was purportedly filed under article 20.02 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. This article provides, in part, that a defendant may file a petition in the district court in which the defendant’s prosecution is pending. Tex.Code CRiM. PROC. Ann. art. 20.02(e) (Vernon Supp. 2004-2005)(emphasis added). Because Kelly had no prosecution pending in the district court where the proceeding was filed, the trial court had no jurisdiction to rule on the merits of the motion.
When the trial court has no jurisdiction, the proper procedure for the appellate court is to vacate the lower court’s judgment and dismiss the proceeding for want of jurisdiction. Tex.R.App. P. 43.2(e).
Thus, I concur only in the dismissal of this appeal.