Donald Ray McCray v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division
Opinion
In The Court of Appeals Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo
No. 07-19-00167-CR
DONALD RAY MCCRAY, APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE
On Appeal from the 251st District Court Potter County, Texas Trial Court No. 70,652-C, Honorable Ana Estevez, Presiding
June 25, 2019
MEMORANDUM OPINION Before QUINN, C.J., and CAMPBELL and PARKER, JJ.
Appellant Donald Ray McCray, proceeding pro se, filed a notice of appeal from a
purported judgment.1 However, no pronouncement of sentence or appealable order has
been entered by the trial court. Questioning whether we have jurisdiction over the appeal,
we directed appellant to address the matter by June 11, 2019. Appellant did not file a
response.
1Appellant has previously filed six notices of appeal in this criminal case, cause numbers 07-16- 00020-CR, 07-16-00444-CR, 07-17-00058-CR, 07-17-00258-CR, 07-18-00011-CR, and 07-18-00257-CR. We dismissed the appeals for want of jurisdiction. As we stated in Kerr v. State, No. 07-13-00128-CR, 2014 Tex. App. LEXIS 12850,
at *9 (Tex. App.—Amarillo Nov. 25, 2014, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for
publication), “[w]hen no sentence is pronounced, there is no valid judgment or conviction
from which to appeal.” Given the absence of either an oral pronouncement of sentence
or an appealable order, we have no jurisdiction over the appeal. Therefore, we dismiss
the appeal for want of jurisdiction.
Per Curiam
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