Dowd v. State

STRINGER, Judge.

Donna Dowd seeks review of the order finding her in violation of her community supervision. We reverse because the trial court did not have jurisdiction to enter the order.

The State charged Dowd with possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and disorderly conduct in 2001. Dowd entered a guilty plea to the charges, and the court placed her on eighteen months of drug offender probation. An affidavit of violation of probation was subsequently filed alleging that Dowd had violated probation because she failed a urine test. Dowd appeared before the court and denied…