Martin Aleman v. The State of Texas Appeal from 22nd District Court of Comal County (memorandum opinion )

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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-14-00576-CR Martin Aleman, Appellant v. The State of Texas, Appellee FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF COMAL COUNTY, 22 JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. CR2002-246, HONORABLE JACK H. ROBISON, JUDGE PRESIDING MEMORANDUM OPINION In 2002, a jury convicted appellant Martin Aleman of the offense of aggravated robbery, and the district court sentenced him to sixty years imprisonment. This Court affirmed the judgment of conviction on appeal.1 Earlier this year, Aleman filed with the district court a pro se motion for relief from judgment, which is in substance a motion for judgment nunc pro tunc, as it seeks to correct what Aleman claims are clerical errors in the judgment.2 The district court denied the motion. Aleman has filed a notice of appeal from the district court s order. In response, the State has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, arguing that we lack jurisdiction to review the district court s order. We agree. The standard for determining 1 See Aleman v. State, No. 03-02-00651-CR, 2004 Tex. App. LEXIS 3162 (Tex. App. Austin Apr. 8, 2004, no pet.). 2 See Blanton v. State, 369 S.W.3d 894, 897-98 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012). jurisdiction is . . . whether the appeal is authorized by law. 3 In criminal cases, an appeal is authorized only when a trial court enters a judgment of guilt or other appealable order. 4 An order denying a judgment nunc pro tunc is not an appealable order.5 Accordingly, we grant the State s motion and dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. ____________________________________________ Bob Pemberton, Justice Before Justices Puryear, Pemberton, and Field Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction Filed: October 29, 2014 Do Not Publish 3 Abbott v. State, 271 S.W.3d 694, 696-97 (Tex. Crim. App. 2008) (citing Tex. Const. art. V, 4 Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2); see also Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 44.02. § 6(a)). 5 See Abbott, 271 S.W.3d at 697; State v. Ross, 953 S.W.2d 748, 752 (Tex. Crim. App. 1997); Sanchez v. State, 112 S.W.3d 311, 312 (Tex. App. Corpus Christi 2003, no pet.); Everett v. State, 82 S.W.3d 735, 735 (Tex. App. Waco 2002, no pet.); Allen v. State, 20 S.W.3d 164, 165 (Tex. App. Texarkana 2000, no pet.); see also Suarez v. State, No. 03-14-00477-CR, 2014 Tex. App. LEXIS 10635, at *1 (Tex. App. Austin Sept. 25, 2014, no pet. h.) (dismissing appeal in similar case). 2

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