to a felony, is too remote to be so used. Section 49.09 of the Texas Penal Code provides that, on proof of two prior DWI convictions, the offense is elevated to a third-degree felony, supporting a two- to ten-year range of punishment. Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 49.09. The State alleged that Gordon had been convicted of two prior DWIs. Gordon signed a written stipulation to two prior convictions. In addition, the State presented evidence of another DWI conviction in 1995. Gordon argues that jurisdictional matters may not be waived and that parties may not confer jurisdiction on a court. See State v. Wheeler, 790 S.W.2d 415, 416 (TexApp.-Amarillo 1990, no pet.); cf. Tamez v. State, 980 S.W.2d 845, 847 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1998), rev’d on other grounds, 11 S.W.3d 198 (Tex.Crim.App.2000) (<HOLDING>). The Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals has very
holding district court lacked discretion to permit defendant to stipulate to prior conviction in prosecution for being a felon in possession of a firearm holding that defendant could stipulate to prior dwi convictions holding that when a defendant stipulates to prior convictions in prosecutions for aggravated offenses under ndcc  390801 submission of prior convictions to a jury constitutes reversible error holding that when a defendant admits prior convictions at a habitual offender hearing he waives any complaints about the validity of the prior convictions holding that prior convictions for possession of cocaine and marijuana are admissible to impeach defendant