Court Opinion

ID: 9891608
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Date Created: 2023-10-19 07:09:56.01061+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:50:02.710051
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COURT OF APPEALS
                                 EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
                                      EL PASO, TEXAS

 DEVORIS NEWSON,                                    §               No. 08-23-00258-CR

                                Appellant,          §                  Appeal from the

 v.                                                 §            120th Judicial District Court

 THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                §             of El Paso County, Texas

                                Appellee.           §                (TC#20190D02039)

                                  MEMORANDUM OPINION

       This appeal is before the Court on its own motion to determine whether it should be

dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Because there is no appealable order, we dismiss the appeal for

want of jurisdiction.

       Appellate court jurisdiction is authorized by statute. See Galitz v. State, 617 S.W.2d 949,

951 (Tex. Crim. App. 1981) (en banc). In the absence of an authorizing statute, appellate courts

are without jurisdiction to consider an appeal. In the criminal context, the Texas Legislature has

authorized appeals from final, written judgments and certain specific interlocutory orders. See

Gutierrez v. State, 307 S.W. 3d 318, 321 (Tex. Crim. App. 2010). Appellant’s pro se notice of

appeal does not specify the order he is attempting to appeal, and the docketing certificate from the

120th Judicial District Court does not indicate that there is an appealable order in this case.
        On September 26, 2023, the clerk of this Court sent Appellant a letter notifying him that it

appeared there was no appealable order at issue in this case. The letter gave notice of our intent to

dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction, after ten days, unless grounds were shown for the Court

to continue the appeal. As of the date of this order, no response to the Court’s letter has been

received. Because there does not appear to be an appealable order, we dismiss the appeal for want

of jurisdiction.

                                              GINA M. PALAFOX, Justice

October 16, 2023

Before Rodriguez, C.J., Palafox, and Soto, JJ.

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