Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed February 26, 2009.
In The
Fourteenth Court of Appeals
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NO. 14-09-00148-CR
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THOMAS EDWARD MCDOWELL, Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
On Appeal from the 262nd District Court
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 620871
M E M O R A N D U M O P I N I O N
Appellant pled guilty to the offense of aggravated robbery and was sentenced on August 3, 1992, to seventeen years= confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. No timely motion for new trial was filed. Appellant=s notice of appeal was not filed until January 21, 2009.
A defendant=s notice of appeal must be filed within thirty days after sentence is imposed when the defendant has not filed a motion for new trial. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1). A notice of appeal that complies with the requirements of Rule 26 is essential to vest the court of appeals with jurisdiction. Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998). If an appeal is not timely perfected, a court of appeals does not obtain jurisdiction to address the merits of the appeal. Under those circumstances it can take no action other than to dismiss the appeal. Id.
Accordingly, the appeal is ordered dismissed.
PER CURIAM
Panel consists of Justices Yates, Guzman, and Sullivan.
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