In The
Court of Appeals
Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo
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No. 07-13-00314-CR
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KENDRA DRAUGHAN, APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE
On Appeal from the 137th District Court
Lubbock County, Texas
Trial Court No. 2010-428,943; Honorable John J. “Trey” McClendon, Presiding
October 7, 2013
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Before QUINN, C.J., and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.
Appellant, Kendra Draughan, was convicted of possession of a controlled
substance with intent to deliver one gram or more but less than four.1 According to the
Criminal Appeal Certificate filed by the Lubbock County District Clerk, punishment was
assessed at ten years confinement. Pending before this Court is Appellant’s Motion for
Extension of Time requesting additional time to file the notice of appeal. According to
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TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 481.112(c) (West 2010).
the motion, Appellant was on community supervision, which was revoked on August 5,
2013.2 Appellant asserts that the judgment or order of revocation has either been lost
or not signed. According to the Criminal Appeal Certificate, no motion for new trial was
filed. Notice of appeal was filed in the trial court on September 20, 2013. For the
reasons expressed herein, we dismiss this purported appeal for want of jurisdiction.
A timely and proper notice of appeal invokes this Court’s jurisdiction. State v.
Riewe, 13 S.W.3d 408, 410 (Tex.Crim.App. 2000). When, as here, no motion for new
trial is filed, a notice of appeal must be filed within thirty days after the day sentence
was imposed. TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1). The deadline may be extended if, within
fifteen days, the party files the notice with the trial court clerk and also files a motion for
extension of time in compliance with Rule 10.5(b) of the Texas Rules of Appellate
Procedure in this Court. See TEX. R. APP. P. 26.3. This Court has no authority to
invoke Rule 2 of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure to enlarge the time in which to
file a notice of appeal. See TEX. R. APP. P. 2; Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210
(Tex.Crim.App. 1998).
The Criminal Appeal Certificate reflects that Appellant’s sentence was imposed in
open court on August 5, 2013. No motion for new trial having been filed, the thirtieth
day to file the notice of appeal was September 4, 2013. Applying the fifteen day
extension provided by Rule 26.3 extended the deadline to September 19, 2013. The
notice of appeal, however, was not filed until September 20, 2013, after all deadlines for
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The Criminal Appeal Certificate does not reflect that Appellant was placed on community supervision.
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doing so had expired. Appellant's untimely filing of her notice of appeal prevents this
Court from acquiring jurisdiction to entertain her appeal.3
Consequently, this purported appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
Patrick A. Pirtle
Justice
Do not publish.
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Appellant may be entitled to relief by filing a post-conviction writ of habeas corpus returnable to the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for consideration of an out-of-time appeal. See TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC.
ANN. art. 11.07 (West Supp. 2012).
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