Opinion
10-24-00030-CR
02-08-2024
RONNEY JOE STANDIFER, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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From the 19th District Court McLennan County, Texas Trial Court No. 2013-122-C1.
Before Gray, Chief Justice, Johnson, Justice and Smith, Justice.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
TOM GRAY, Chief Justice.
Ronney Joe Standifer was convicted in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison. He attempts to appeal the trial court's Order, signed on January 23, 2024, denying Standifer's "Petitioner's Omnibus Motions Submitted to this Court," filed with the trial court on the same date as the Order was signed, which requested the compulsion of certain people to provide documents to Standifer so that Standifer could proceed with a petition for writ of habeas corpus.
The standard for determining jurisdiction is not whether the appeal is precluded by law, but whether the appeal is authorized by law. Abbott v. State, 271 S.W.3d 694, 696 (Tex. Crim. App. 2008). We have not found any rule or any statutory or constitutional provision that would authorize Standifer's appeal from the trial court's Order signed on January 23, 2024.
Accordingly, the trial court's January 23, 2024 Order is not appealable, we have no jurisdiction to entertain Standifer's appeal, and the appeal is dismissed. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2; Staley v. State, 233 S.W.3d 337, 338 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007).
Appeal dismissed.