Gabryelle Daniels v. the State of Texas

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-25-00777-CR

Gabryelle Daniels, Appellant

v.

The State of Texas, Appellee

FROM JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURT, PRECINCT 2, CORYELL COUNTY
NO. E00E459-1, THE HONORABLE BILL PRICE, JUDGE PRESIDING

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Gabryelle Daniels, acting pro se, filed a notice of appeal from a conviction for a

traffic violation in a Justice of the Peace Court in Coryell County, Texas. 1 The criminal

appellate jurisdiction vested in this Court by the Texas Constitution and the Code of Criminal

Procedure is limited to counties in this Court’s appellate district. See Tex. Const., art. V, § 6

(providing that courts of appeals “shall have appellate jurisdiction co-extensive with the limits of

their respective districts, which shall extend to all cases of which the District Courts or County

1 We note that an appeal from a justice court must be to the county court. See Tex. Code
Crim. Proc. arts. 4.08 (“The county courts shall have appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases of
which justice courts and other inferior courts have original jurisdiction.”), 45A.202 (“An appeal
from a justice or municipal court . . . shall be heard by the county court or, if the county court has
no jurisdiction over the case, the proper court in the county.”); Tex. Gov’t Code § 26.046 (“A
county court has appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases of which justice courts and other inferior
courts have original jurisdiction.”); State v. Alley, 158 S.W.3d 485, 488 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005)
(noting that article 4.08 establishes “that appeals from a justice court must be taken to the
county court”).
Courts have original or appellate jurisdiction, under such restrictions and regulations as may be

prescribed by law”); Tex. Code Crim. Proc. arts. 4.01 (establishing criminal jurisdiction in

criminal actions in courts of appeals), .03 (providing that courts of appeals “shall have appellate

jurisdiction coextensive with the limits of their respective districts in all criminal cases except

those in which the death penalty has been assessed”). Coryell County lies outside this Court’s

appellate district. Compare Tex. Gov’t Code § 22.201(d) (listing twenty-four counties in Third

Court’s district), with id. § 22.201(k) (including Coryell County in list of counties in Tenth

Court’s district). Because Coryell County is outside the boundaries of our district, we lack

appellate jurisdiction in this matter, and we dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex.

R. App. P. 42.3(a); see also Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 523 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996) (listing

section 22.201 of Government Code among examples of laws that establish jurisdiction of courts

of appeals).

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Rosa Lopez Theofanis, Justice

Before Justices Triana, Kelly, and Theofanis

Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction

Filed: October 14, 2025

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