NUMBER 13-19-00288-CR

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG ____________________________________________________________

EVA MARIE HENDRIX, Appellant,

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee.

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On appeal from the County Court at Law

of Navarro County, Texas.

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MEMORANDUM OPINION

Before Justices Benavides, Hinojosa, and Perkes

Memorandum Opinion by Justice Hinojosa

Appellant, Eva Maria Hendrix, attempted to perfect an appeal from a conviction for 

forgery.

1 We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

 1 This case is before the Court on transfer from the Ninth Court of Appeals in Beaumont pursuant 

to a docket equalization order issued by the Supreme Court of Texas. See TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. § 

73.001.
2

Sentence in this matter was imposed on December 19, 2018. No motion for new 

trial was filed. Notice of appeal was filed on April 17, 2019. On June 26, 2019, the Clerk 

of this Court notified appellant that it appeared that the appeal was not timely perfected. 

Appellant was advised that the appeal 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 

responded to this notice. 

Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.2 provides that an appeal is perfected when 

notice of appeal is filed within thirty days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended 

in open court unless a motion for new trial is timely filed. TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1). 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. 

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). “When 

a notice of appeal is filed within the fifteen-day period but no timely motion for extension 

of time is filed, the appellate court lacks jurisdiction.” Olivo, 918 S.W.2d at 522. Absent 

a timely filed notice of appeal, a court of appeals does not obtain jurisdiction to address 

the merits of the appeal in a criminal case 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). 
3

Appellant’s notice of appeal, filed more than three months after sentence was 

imposed, was untimely, and accordingly, we lack jurisdiction over the appeal. 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; however, the 

availability of that remedy is beyond the jurisdiction of this Court. See TEX. CODE CRIM.

PROC. ANN. art. 11.07, § 3(a); see also Ex parte Garcia, 988 S.W.2d 240 (Tex. Crim. App. 

1999).

The appeal is DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION. 

LETICIA HINOJOSA

Justice 

Do not publish. 

TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed the

22nd day of August, 2019.