Opinion

State v. Morello

  • 547 S.W.3d 881
Court
Texas Supreme Court
Filed
Feb 23, 2018
Status
Published
Author
Blacklock
On the bench
Blacklock
Cited by
25 cases
Authority
More cited than 75.1%

holding that complaint of severance below is challenge to subject matter jurisdiction that may be raised for first time on appeal although concluding that severance was proper, and “[t]hat being so, the judgment against him was not interlocutory, but final and subject to appeal” (emphasis added)

How later courts described this case

  • holding that complaint of severance below is challenge to subject matter jurisdiction that may be raised for first time on appeal although concluding that severance was proper, and “[t]hat being so, the judgment against him was not interlocutory, but final and subject to appeal” (emphasis added)
  • treating objection to severance as challenge to subject-matter jurisdiction that could not be waived but concluding that severance was proper because severed claims were not so interwoven with non-severed claims for severance 6 to constitute abuse of discretion
  • stating 17 “challenges to lack of subject matter jurisdiction may be raised for the first time on appeal”
  • stating “challenges to lack of subject matter jurisdiction may be raised for the first time on appeal”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Justice Blacklock did not participate in the decision.

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