Hasseh El Bey v. the State of Texas

In The
Court of Appeals
Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo
No. 07-21-00066-CR
No. 07-21-00067-CR
No. 07-21-00068-CR
HASSEH EL BEY, APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE
On Appeal from the 222nd District Court
Oldham County, Texas
Trial Court Nos. OCR-20F-043, OCI-20I-023, OCR-20I-086,
Honorable Roland D. Saul, Presiding
May 17, 2021
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Before PIRTLE and PARKER and DOSS, JJ.
Appellant, Hasseh El Bey, proceeding pro se, filed notices of appeal from the
“information, complaint, judgment, and capias” purportedly issued by the trial court in
these criminal proceedings. We dismiss the appeals for want of jurisdiction.
The trial court clerk has certified that no judgment of conviction or sentence has
been entered in these causes. Because our appellate jurisdiction in criminal matters is
limited to judgments of conviction or where jurisdiction has been expressly granted by
law, we notified Appellant that the appeals were subject to dismissal unless he could show
grounds for continuing them. See Abbott v. State, 271 S.W.3d 694, 696-97 (Tex. Crim.
App. 2008).
Appellant filed a response asserting that he seeks to appeal the pretrial errors of
the trial court, including a judgment nisi and capias issued for his failure to appear in court
and an order denying his motion to dismiss his criminal charges. However, such pretrial
rulings are not judgments of conviction and we have found no authority granting this Court
jurisdiction to review them. See Neal v. State, No. 07-18-00273-CV, 2018 Tex. App.
LEXIS 6366, at *3 (Tex. App.—Amarillo Aug. 14, 2018, no pet.) (per curiam) (mem. op.)
(dismissing appeal from judgment nisi because the judgment is an interlocutory order, not
appealable until final judgment); Ahmad v. State, 158 S.W.3d 525, 527 (Tex. App.—Fort
Worth 2004, pet. ref’d) (concluding that an appeal from the denial of a motion to quash
an indictment is not a permissible interlocutory appeal).
For these reasons, we dismiss Appellant’s appeals for want of jurisdiction.
Per Curiam
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