Dewey Charles Behrens v. State

Opinion

02-11-374-CR

COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH

NO. 02-11-00374-CR

Dewey Charles Behrens		APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS		STATE

----------

FROM Criminal District Court No. 1 OF Tarrant COUNTY

MEMORANDUM OPINION[1]

          Appellant Dewey Charles Behrens filed a notice of appeal from the trial court’s pretrial order denying his special plea of double jeopardy.  The State filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, arguing that we lack jurisdiction.  We do not have jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a special plea of double jeopardy.  Ex parte Apolinar, 820 S.W.2d 792, 793–94 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991); White v. State, No. 02-11-00015-CR, 2011 WL 582665, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Feb. 17, 2011, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication) (“While a criminal defendant may file a special plea in order to assert a claim of former jeopardy, . . . there is no statutory provision which grants us jurisdiction to review the denial of a special plea before a final judgment has been rendered.”).  Accordingly, we grant the State’s motion to dismiss and dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction.  See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(f).

PER CURIAM

PANEL:  MEIER J.; LIVINGSTON, C.J.; and GABRIEL, J.

DO NOT PUBLISH

Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)

DELIVERED:  March 1, 2012

---

[1]See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.