Alexander v. State

OPINION

DIANE HENSON, Justice.

We decide here that a person convicted in a municipal court of record and fined $100 or less, and whose conviction is affirmed by the county court at law, may not appeal to this Court to challenge the constitutionality of the ordinance on which his conviction was based. We reach this conclusion after carefully considering the statutes regulating this Court’s subject-matter jurisdiction and the right to invoke that jurisdiction.

In each of these causes, appellant A. Nicholas Alexander was convicted in the City of Austin Municipal Court for violating the city’s…