NUMBER 13-14-00741-CR

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG 

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BUFORD RANDLE A/K/A RANDLE BUFORD, Appellant,

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee.

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On appeal from the 148th District Court 

of Nueces County, Texas.

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MEMORANDUM OPINION

Before Justices Garza, Benavides, and Perkes

Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

Appellant, Buford Randle a/k/a Randle Buford, attempted to perfect an appeal from 

a conviction for possession of a controlled substance. This appeal was abated by this 

Court on February 12, 2015, to determine whether appellant has the right of appeal. This 

case is hereby REINSTATED. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.
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Sentence in this matter was imposed on October 22, 2014. No motion for new 

trial was filed. Notice of appeal was filed on December 2, 2014. On December 11, 

2014, 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. Although the notice of 

appeal herein was filed within the 15-day time period for filing a motion for extension of 

time to file notice of appeal, no such motion for extension of time was filed. See id.

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). 
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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) (Vernon 2005); see also Ex parte Garcia, 988 S.W.2d 240 

(Tex. Crim. App. 1999).

The appeal is DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION. 

PER CURIAM

Do not publish. 

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

Delivered and filed the 

9th day of April, 2015.