
TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN





NO. 03-02-00060-CR


John Richard Liles, Appellant

v.


The State of Texas, Appellee





FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY, 27TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NO. 51,831, HONORABLE C. W. DUNCAN, JR., JUDGE PRESIDING






After pleading guilty, appellant John Richard Liles was convicted of arson.  He was
sentenced to imprisonment for seven years in conformity to a plea bargain agreement.  His notice
of appeal states, "This appeal is for a jurisdictional defect in that the plea was involuntary due to
ineffective assistance of counsel.  The Trial Court denied permission to appeal."

When a defendant pleads guilty to a felony and the punishment assessed does not
exceed that recommended by the prosecutor and agreed to by the defendant, the notice of appeal
must state that the appeal is for a jurisdictional defect, or that the substance of the appeal was raised
by written motion and ruled on before trial, or that the trial court granted permission to appeal.  Tex.
R. App. P. 25.2(b)(3).  The voluntariness of a guilty plea is not a jurisdictional issue.  Flowers v.
State, 935 S.W.2d 131, 135 n.4 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996).  Absent the trial court's permission, rule
25.2(b) does not permit the voluntariness of the guilty plea to be raised on appeal.  Cooper v. State,
45 S.W.3d 77, 83 (Tex. Crim. App. 2001).
The appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.


  
				David Puryear, Justice
Before Justices Kidd, Patterson and Puryear
Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction
Filed:   March 7, 2002
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