Donald Ray McCray v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division Appeal from 251st District Court of Potter County (memorandum opinion per curiam)
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In The Court of Appeals Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo No. 07-17-00258-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 September 1, 2017 MEMORANDUM OPINION Before QUINN, C.J., and CAMPBELL and PIRTLE, JJ. Appellant Donald Ray McCray, proceeding pro se, filed a notice of appeal from a purported “judgment” dated July 11, 2017.1 No final order or pronouncement of sentence has been entered in the trial court.’ Questioning whether we have jurisdiction over the appeal, we directed appellant to address the matter by August 11, 2017. Appellant did not file a response. 1 Appellant has previously filed three notices of appeal in this criminal case, cause numbers 0716-00020-CR, 07-16-00444-CR, and 07-17-00058-CR. We dismissed the appeals for want of jurisdiction. As we stated in Kerr v. State, No. 07-13-00128-CR, 07-13-00380-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 Per Curiam Do not publish. 2
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