Kevin Bryan Farrar v. State

In The Court of Appeals

Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

No. 06-16-00020-CR KEVIN BRYAN FARRAR, Appellant

V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee On Appeal from the 188th District Court

Gregg County, Texas Trial Court No. 41109-A

Before Morriss, C.J., Moseley and Burgess, JJ.

Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Morriss

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Kevin Bryan Farrar pled guilty to forgery. In accordance with his negotiated plea agreement with the State, the trial court sentenced Farrar to two years’ confinement in state jail, but suspended the sentence in favor of placing Farrar on community supervision for five years. However, after Farrar pled true to the State’s allegations that he violated the terms and conditions of his community supervision, the trial court revoked Farrar’s community supervision and sentenced him to fifteen months’ confinement in state jail.

On appeal,1 Farrar argues that his sentence violated his Eighth Amendment protections because it was disproportionate to his crime. We addressed the question of whether we have jurisdiction to address this issue in our opinion of this date on Farrar’s appeal in cause number 06- 16-00019-CR. For the reasons stated therein, we likewise conclude that we do not have jurisdiction over Farrar’s sole point of error on appeal in this matter.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

Josh R. Morriss, III Chief Justice

Date Submitted: August 26, 2016 Date Decided: November 17, 2016 Do Not Publish