Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-09-28 23:04:55.808606+00
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In The

                               Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                              NO. 09-15-00320-CR
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               LANDON COLLINS TALKINGTON, Appellant

                                        V.

                       THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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                    On Appeal from the 411th District Court
                             Polk County, Texas
                           Trial Cause No. 23885
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      The trial court sentenced Landon Collins Talkington on May 19, 2015. On

August 10, 2015, Talkington filed a notice of appeal from an order denying a

“Motion to Waiver Payment of Fines, Court Cost, and Court-Appointed Attorney

Fees.” See generally Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 43.091 (West Supp. 2014).

An appeal in a criminal case must be specifically authorized by statute, and a court

of appeals lacks jurisdiction to review interlocutory and post-judgment orders

unless such jurisdiction has been expressly granted by law. Apolinar v. State, 820

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S.W.2d 792, 794 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991) (no interlocutory appeal from an order

denying a special plea); see also Haile v. State, 451 S.W.3d 856, 857-58 (Tex.

App.—Austin 2014, no pet.) (no appeal from a trial court’s post-judgment ruling

denying a motion to dismiss court costs and fines). Talkington has failed to show

any authority granting an intermediate appellate court jurisdiction to consider an

appeal from the denial of his post-conviction motion. Accordingly, we dismiss the

appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                              ________________________________
                                                      CHARLES KREGER
                                                           Justice

Submitted on September 22, 2015
Opinion Delivered September 23, 2015
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Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ.

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