Steven Wayne Wilson v. State

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
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MEMORANDUM OPINION 1
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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
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… 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
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… 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.
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… 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).
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… 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).
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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
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… T EX. R. A PP. P. 43.2(f); see Henderson, 132 S.W.3d at 114; Abdallah,
924 S.W.2d at 755.
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