Fabiola Lopez v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: January 31, 2019
• Docket: 13-18-00604-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

NUMBER 13-18-00604-CR

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG ____________________________________________________________

FABIOLA LOPEZ, Appellant,

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee. ____________________________________________________________

On appeal from the 38th District Court of Uvalde County, Texas. ____________________________________________________________

MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Benavides and Longoria Memorandum Opinion by Justice Benavides Appellant Fabiola Lopez, proceeding pro se, filed a pleading in this Court regarding

an appeal of her conviction in cause number CR-5930-IS in the 38th District Court of

Uvalde County, Texas. On October 26, 2018, the Clerk of this Court notified appellant

that it appeared that the Court lacked jurisdiction over the case, requested appellant to

correct this defect within ten days, and advised appellant that the appeal would be dismissed if the defect were not corrected. Appellant did not respond to the Court’s

notice or otherwise correct the defect.

Generally, a court of appeals has appellate jurisdiction only within its district. See

TEX. CONST. art. 5, § 6. Uvalde County is within the district for the Fourth Court of

Appeals and is not within this Court’s judicial district. See TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. §

22.201(e), (n) (West, Westlaw through 2017 1st C.S.). Therefore, we have no

jurisdiction over this attempted appeal. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

GINA M. BENAVIDES, Justice

Do not publish. TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed the 31st day of January, 2019.