Court Opinion

ID: 9680738
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:37:40.554582+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:30.201373
License: Public Domain

TOM GRAY, Justice
dissenting.
The majority is both right and wrong. Because the wrong is greater than the right, I respectfully dissent.
The majority has determined that we have no jurisdiction of this appeal. That determination is correct. “Jurisdiction of a court must be legally invoked, and when not legally invoked, the power of the court to act is as absent as if it did not exist.” Ex parte Caldwell, 383 S.W.2d 587, 589 (Tex.Ciim.App.1964). When a court has no power to act, it “lacks jurisdiction to dispose of the purported appeal in any manner other than by dismissing it for lack of jurisdiction.” Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 524 (Tex.Crim.App.1996). Thus, having determined we have no jurisdiction, the only thing we can properly do is dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction.
Because the majority publishes a meaningless “order” rather than dismissing this appeal for want of jurisdiction, I respectfully dissent.