Court Opinion

ID: 9401148
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Date Created: 2023-06-11 07:10:54.153284+00
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Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed June 8, 2023.

                                               In The

                         Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                                     NO. 14-23-00247-CV

                            TERENCE GREGORY, Appellant

                                                 V.
                             ALBERT PUNCHARD, Appellee

                            On Appeal from the County Court1
                                   Lee County, Texas
                               Trial Court Cause No. 3494

                               MEMORANDUM OPINION

       Appellant, proceeding pro se, is attempting to appeal the jury’s verdict. Our
record does not contain a judgment on that verdict. On April 25, 2023, we issued

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          The Supreme Court of Texas ordered the Court of Appeals for the Third District of Texas to
transfer this appeal (No. 03-23-00165-CV) to this court. Misc. Docket No. 23-9017 (Tex. March 21,
2023); see Tex. Gov't Code Ann. §§ 73.001, .002. Because of the transfer, we decide the case in
accordance with the precedent of the transferor court under principles of stare decisis if our decision
otherwise would have been inconsistent with the transferor court's precedent. See Tex. R. App. 41.3.
an order to trial court clerk to provide this court with a copy of the final judgment.
The trial court clerk informed this court that “no final judgment has been filed.”

      Generally, appeals may be taken only from final judgments. Lehmann v.
Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001). There is no judgment or
appealable interlocutory order in the underlying proceeding from which appellant
may appeal. Absent a final judgment or appealable interlocutory order, we lack
subject-matter jurisdiction to decide this appeal.

      On May 10, 2023, notification was transmitted to the parties of this court’s
intention to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction unless appellant filed a
response demonstrating grounds for continuing the appeal on or before May 22,
2023. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a). Appellant’s response fails to demonstrate that
this court has jurisdiction over the appeal.

      Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

                                   PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Wise, Bourliot, and Spain.

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