Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-29 08:13:48.668802+00
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Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed October 17, 2023

                                      In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                              NO. 14-22-00749-CR
                              NO. 14-22-00750-CR

                  HIPOLITO TORRES GALICIA, Appellant
                                        V.

                       THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                  On Appeal from the 268th District Court
                          Fort Bend County, Texas
          Trial Court Cause Nos. 19-DCR-089024 & 19-DCR-089025

                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      The State charged appellant with two counts of indecency with a child and
one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child. After appellant was convicted of
aggravated sexual assault of a child, the State moved to dismiss the two charges for
indecency. The trial court granted the motion and dismissed the charges for
indecency with a child. Appellant, however, filed a notice of appeal in each of the
three cause numbers, despite there only being a final judgment in one of the
causes.

      In Texas, appeals in criminal cases are permitted only when they are
authorized by statute. State ex rel. Lykos, 330 S.W.3d 904, 915 (Tex. Crim. App.
2011); see Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 44.02. Generally, a criminal defendant may
only appeal from a final judgment of conviction. See State v. Sellers, 790 S.W.2d
316, 321 n. 4 (Tex. Crim. App. 1990). The courts of appeals do not have
jurisdiction to review interlocutory orders in a criminal appeal absent express
statutory authority. Apolinar v. State, 820 S.W.2d 792, 794 (Tex. Crim. App.
1991). See also Ragston v. State, 424 S.W.3d 49 (Tex. Crim. App. 2014).

      There is not a judgment of conviction in trial court cause number 19-DCR-
089024, appellate cause number 14-22-00749-CR; nor in trial court cause number
19-DCR-089025, appellate cause number 14-22-00750-CR. Accordingly, we have
no jurisdiction over these appeals.

      We dismiss the appeals.

                                      PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Chief Justice Christopher and Justices Bourliot and Hassan.
Do Not Publish — Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b).

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