Court Opinion

ID: 9780909
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 08:13:40.953733+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:16.697039
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In the
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                   No. 06-23-00030-CR

     LAUREN MARIE HOPFENSPIRGER, Appellant

                            V.

           THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

         On Appeal from the 336th District Court
                 Fannin County, Texas
             Trial Court No. CR-20-27706

      Before Stevens, C.J., van Cleef and Rambin, JJ.
       Memorandum Opinion by Justice van Cleef
                                      MEMORANDUM OPINION

           Pursuant to an agreement with the State, Lauren Marie Hopfenspirger entered an open

plea of guilty to family violence assault by impeding the normal breathing or circulation of the

blood of the person by blocking the complainant’s nose or mouth.1 After a unitary hearing, the

trial court found Hopfenspirger guilty and sentenced her to ten years’ imprisonment. On appeal,2

Hopfenspirger asserts that, by finding her guilty of the lesser-included offense of attempt to

intentionally or knowingly cause serious injury to a child in our cause number 06-23-00031-CR,

the trial court went beyond her agreement with the State and violated her due process right to

withdraw her guilty pleas in this case, as well as that case. In her second issue, Hopfenspirger

asserts that the trial court did not have jurisdiction because the indictment charged a

misdemeanor.

           Hopfenspirger asserted her first issue in her appeal in cause number 06-23-00029-CR,

and we determined that we lacked jurisdiction over that appeal. For the reasons stated therein,

we likewise conclude that we lack jurisdiction over this appeal.

1
    See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.01(b)(2)(B) (Supp.).
2
 In our cause number 06-23-00029-CR, Hopfenspirger appeals her conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon. In our cause number 06-23-00031-CR, she appeals her conviction for attempt to intentionally or
knowingly cause serious injury to a child.
                                                         2
      We dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction.

                                                   Charles van Cleef
                                                   Justice

Date Submitted:      August 28, 2023
Date Decided:        August 29, 2023

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