Abbott v. State

OPINION

In this case, the court of appeals addressed the merits of appellant’s appeal from the trial court’s post-judgment order denying appellant’s request for a time credit on his 180-day incarceration in a county jail as a condition of his community supervision.1 We decide that the court of appeals should have dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

Appellant was convicted of indecency with a child and received a twenty-year prison sentence, which appellant began serving on May 25, 2005. On June 7, 2006, this prison sentence was overturned on direct appeal, with a new punishment…