In The
Court of Appeals
Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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NO. 09-14-00048-CR
NO. 09-14-00049-CR
NO. 09-14-00051-CR
NO. 09-14-00052-CR
NO. 09-14-00053-CR
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NATHAN JOEL NICHOLS, Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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On Appeal from the 252nd District Court
Jefferson County, Texas
Trial Cause Nos. 11-12768, 13-15762, 12-14453, 11-12770, 11-12776
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MEMORANDUM OPINION
Nathan Joel Nichols appealed from the trial court’s failure to grant his
applications in five separate cases for a pretrial writ of habeas corpus, each of
which asked that the trial court reduce his bail. No signed, written orders denying
Nichols’s 2013 applications for pretrial writs appear in the appellate records in any
of Nichols’s five cases.
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For this court to exercise jurisdiction in a criminal case, there must be a
signed, written order which is being appealed. State v. Sanavongxay, 407 S.W.3d
252, 259 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012). Because the appellate records do not contain
signed, written orders denying the applications Nichols filed, we dismiss Nichols’s
appeals for want of jurisdiction. See id.; see also Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(f).
APPEALS DISMISSED.
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HOLLIS HORTON
Justice
Opinion Delivered April 9, 2014
Do Not Publish
Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.
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