Carolina Sanchez v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: February 27, 2002
• Docket: 04-01-00660-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

No. 04-01-00660-CR Carolina SANCHEZ, Appellant v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee From the 175th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas Trial Court No. 2000-CR-6279 Honorable Mary Román, Judge Presiding

PER CURIAM

Sitting: Alma L. López, Justice

Sarah B. Duncan, Justice

Karen Angelini, Justice

Delivered and Filed: February 27, 2002

DISMISSED FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION

Carolina Sanchez pled nolo contendere to a felony and was sentenced in accordance with the terms of her plea bargain agreement. Sanchez filed a general notice of appeal from the trial court's judgment.

To invoke the court's jurisdiction over this appeal, Rule 25.2(b)(3) of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure requires that the notice of appeal state the appeal is from a jurisdictional defect, the substance of the appeal was raised by written motion and ruled on before trial, or the trial court granted permission to appeal. Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(b)(3); Young v. State, 8 S.W.3d 656, 666-67 (Tex. Crim. App. 2000); see State v. Riewe, 13 S.W.3d 408 (Tex. Crim. App. 2000). Appellant's general notice of appeal did not meet any of these conditions.

Because Sanchez's general notice of appeal did not comply with Rule 25.2(b)(3), this court does not have jurisdiction over the appeal. See White v. State No. 123-01, 2001 WL 1539153 (Tex. Crim. App. Dec. 5, 2001); Cooper v. State, 45 S.W.3d 77 (Tex. Crim. App. 2001). Appellant's court-appointed counsel filed a motion to withdraw. We do not have jurisdiction to rule on the motion. We therefore dismiss the appeal and the motion to withdraw for lack of jurisdiction.

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