Steven Wayne Wilson v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: June 5, 2008
• Docket: 02-07-00232-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH

NO. 2-07-232-CR

STEVEN WAYNE WILSON APPELLANT

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS STATE

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FROM THE 271ST DISTRICT COURT OF WISE COUNTY

MEMORANDUM OPINION 1

Appellant pleaded guilty to the offense of aggravated sexual assault of a

child on October 2, 2006. Pursuant to a plea bargain, the trial court placed

appellant on ten years’ deferred adjudication. On March 22, 2007, the State

moved to proceed to adjudication, alleging that appellant violated the terms and

conditions of his community supervision by, among other things, having contact

1 … See T EX. R. A PP. P. 47.4. with an unchaperoned child under the age of seventeen and accepting and

maintaining employment which brought him in contact with children.

After a hearing on the State’s motion to adjudicate on May 29, 2007, the

trial court found four of the State’s allegations to be true, adjudicated appellant

guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and sentenced him to twenty

years’ confinement. Appellant attempts to appeal from this adjudication.

At the time of the hearing on the motion to adjudicate, however, Texas

Code of Criminal Procedure article 42.12, section 5(b), provided that “[n]o

appeal may be taken from this determination [to adjudicate guilt].” 2 It is well-

settled under this statute that a defendant has no right to appeal an

adjudication of guilt.3 Because of this prohibition against a direct appeal of the

determination to adjudicate, we lack jurisdiction to consider appellant’s points.4

2 … T EX. C ODE C RIM. P ROC. A NN. art. 42.12, § 5(b) (Vernon 2006). Although the legislature has since amended this section, the new version applies only to hearings conducted on or after June 15, 2007. Act of May 28, 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., ch. 1308, §§ 5, 53, 2007 Tex. Gen. Laws 4395, 4397, 4413–14. 3 … E.g., Davis v. State, 195 S.W.3d 708, 709 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006) (holding that generally “there is no appeal from a trial court’s determination to adjudicate guilt because there is a statutory prohibition against it”); Henderson v. State, 132 S.W.3d 112, 114 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2004, no pet.); Abdallah v. State, 924 S.W.2d 751, 754–55 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 1996, pet. ref’d). 4 … See Davis, 195 S.W.3d at 710; Trevino v. State, 962 S.W.2d 176, 177 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 1998, pet. ref’d).

2 Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. 5

PER CURIAM

PANEL A: CAYCE, C.J.; GARDNER and WALKER, JJ.

DO NOT PUBLISH T EX. R. A PP. P. 47.2(b)

DELIVERED: June 5, 2008

5 … T EX. R. A PP. P. 43.2(f); see Henderson, 132 S.W.3d at 114; Abdallah, 924 S.W.2d at 755.