Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-10-16 00:43:08.341066+00
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In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                               NO. 09-14-00048-CR
                               NO. 09-14-00049-CR
                               NO. 09-14-00051-CR
                               NO. 09-14-00052-CR
                               NO. 09-14-00053-CR
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                     NATHAN JOEL NICHOLS, Appellant

                                         V.

                  THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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                 On Appeal from the 252nd District Court
                          Jefferson County, Texas
     Trial Cause Nos. 11-12768, 13-15762, 12-14453, 11-12770, 11-12776
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Nathan Joel Nichols appealed from the trial court’s failure to grant his

applications in five separate cases for a pretrial writ of habeas corpus, each of

which asked that the trial court reduce his bail. No signed, written orders denying

Nichols’s 2013 applications for pretrial writs appear in the appellate records in any

of Nichols’s five cases.

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      For this court to exercise jurisdiction in a criminal case, there must be a

signed, written order which is being appealed. State v. Sanavongxay, 407 S.W.3d
252, 259 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012). Because the appellate records do not contain

signed, written orders denying the applications Nichols filed, we dismiss Nichols’s

appeals for want of jurisdiction. See id.; see also Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(f).

      APPEALS DISMISSED.

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                                                     HOLLIS HORTON
                                                           Justice

Opinion Delivered April 9, 2014
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Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.

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