Opinion
No. 05-05-00781-CR
Opinion Filed July 19, 2005. DO NOT PUBLISH. Tex.R.App.P. 47.
On Appeal from the Criminal District Court, No. 5, Dallas County, Texas, Trial Court Cause No. F02-02116-RL. Dismiss.
Before Justices O'NEILL, RICHTER, and FRANCIS.
OPINION
James Earl Brown is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Pretrial bond was originally set at $50,000. The trial court later revoked appellant's bond. Appellant filed a motion to reinstate the bond, which the trial court denied. This appeal followed. In one issue, appellant contends the trial court violated his constitutional right to bail by denying bond. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. Generally, an appellate court may consider appeals by criminal defendants only after conviction. Wright v. State, 969 S.W.2d 588, 589 (Tex.App.-Dallas 1998, no pet.) Intermediate courts of appeal have no jurisdiction to review interlocutory orders absent express authority. Id. (citing Ex parte Apolinar, 820 S.W.2d 792, 794 (Tex.Crim.App. 1991)). In the context of bail proceedings, an exception to this general rule exists for appeals from the denial of a motion to reduce bond. See id. Although appellant frames his complaint as the trial court denied him bail, the procedural history of the case shows that bail was set, appellant posted the bond, and that bond was later revoked. Neither the order revoking appellant's bond nor the denial of reinstating the bond are appealable interlocutory orders. See id. at 589-90. Absent an appealable order, we are without jurisdiction to entertain the appeal. See id. at 590. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.