NUMBERS 13-09-00517-CR AND 13-09-00518-CR
COURT OF APPEALS
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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PETER CURRY, Appellant,
v.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee.
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On Appeal from the 214th District Court
of Nueces County, Texas.
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MEMORANDUM OPINION
Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Benavides
Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam
Appellant, Peter Curry, attempted to perfect an appeal from a conviction for
aggravated sexual assault of a child and a conviction of burglary of a habitation. We
dismiss the appeals for want of jurisdiction.
This Court's appellate jurisdiction in a criminal case is invoked by a timely filed
notice of appeal. Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996). Absent a
timely filed notice of appeal, a court of appeals does not have jurisdiction to address the
merits of the appeal and can take no action other than to dismiss the appeal for want of
jurisdiction. Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998).
The trial court imposed sentence in these matters on March 14, 2008, and the
judgment was corrected by a nunc pro tunc order signed April 9, 2008. Appellant filed
his notice of appeal on April 7, 2009. On December 22, 2009, the Clerk of this Court
notified appellant that it appeared that the appeals were not timely perfected and that the
appeals would be dismissed if the defect was not corrected within ten days from the date
of receipt of the Court=s directive. Appellant has not filed a response to the Court=s
directive.
Unless a motion for new trial has been timely filed, a notice of appeal must be filed
within thirty days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court, or after
the day the trial court enters an appealable order. TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1). Where a
timely motion for new trial has been filed, the notice of appeal must be filed within ninety
days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court. See id. 26.2(a)(2).
The time within which to file the notice may be enlarged if, within fifteen days after the
deadline for filing the notice, the party files the notice of appeal and a motion complying
with Rule 10.5(b) of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. See id. 26.3.
Appellant=s notice of appeal, filed twelve months after sentence was imposed, was
untimely, and accordingly, we lack jurisdiction over the appeals. See Slaton, 981
S.W.2d at 210. Appellant may be entitled to an out-of-time appeal by filing a
post-conviction writ of habeas corpus returnable to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals;
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however, the availability of that remedy is beyond the jurisdiction of this Court. See TEX.
CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.07, ' 3(a) (Vernon 2005); see also Ex parte Garcia, 988
S.W.2d 240 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999).
The appeals are DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION.
PER CURIAM
Do not publish.
See TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).
Delivered and filed the
21st day of December, 2010.
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