## In The Court of Appeals Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

No. 06

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ANTWON TAYLOR, Appellant

V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the 202nd District Court Bowie County, Texas Trial Court No. 08F0204

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Before Morriss, C.J., Moseley and Burgess, JJ. Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Morriss2 

### MEMORANDUM OPINION Antwon Taylor has filed an untimely notice of direct appeal from the trial court’s denial of his motion for forensic DNA testing

. 1 We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. This Court may consider a direct appeal only if it is filed within the timetables set out by the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. See T EX
. R. A PP . P. 25.2, 26.2. Under Rule 26.2 , a notice of appeal in a criminal case must be filed within 30 days “after the day the trial court enters an appealable order.” T EX
. R. A PP
. P . 26.2(a )( 1). That thirty

- day deadline is extended to ninety days if a motion for new trial is timely filed in the trial court. T EX . R. A PP . P. 26.2(a )( 2). In the absence of a notice of appeal filed within th ose time frame s , this Court has no jurisdiction to consider an

a ppeal. Olivo v. State , 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996); see Slaton v. State , 981 S.W.2d 208, 209 n.3 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998) (per curiam).
In August 20 09 and pursuant to a plea agreement with the State, Taylor pled guilty to and was convicted of sexual assault of a child. 2 In May 2017, Taylor filed a motion for forensic DNA testing in the trial court, and that motion was denied by the trial court on May 16, 2017. Taylor did not file a motion for new trial in the trial court ; consequently, his n otice of appeal from the trial court’s May 16 order was due on or before June 15, 2017

. Taylor filed his notice of appeal

on June 16, 2017 , one day beyond that deadline, making it untimely.

1 See T EX
. C ODE C RIM
. P ROC
. A NN
. art. 64.01 (West Supp. 2016), art. 64.05 (West 2006 ).

2 See T EX
. P ENAL C ODE A NN
. § 22.011 (West 2011). Taylor was also convicted at the same time of failure to appear, and he filed the same motion for forensic DNA testing in that case. His appeal of the trial court’s denial of that motion is addressed under our cause number 06

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We notified Taylor by letter that his notice of appeal appeared t o be untimely and that the appeal was subject to dismissal for want of jurisdiction. We gave Taylor twenty days to respond to our letter and demonstrate how, notwithstanding the defects herein noted, we had jurisdiction

over the appeal. Taylor filed a re sponse indicating that he did not receive notice of the trial court’s order until May 23, 2017, and requesting that we calculate his filing deadline from the date he received notice rather than the date the order was entered. 3 While the power of Taylor’s argument is lost on neither this Court nor the Court of Criminal Appeals, we lack the authority to create jurisdiction where none exists.
Because Taylor did not timely file his notice of appeal, we dismiss th e appeal for want of jurisdiction.

Josh R. Morriss, III Chief Justice Date Submitted: August 14, 2017 Date Decided: August 15, 2017 Do Not Publish

3 The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas and the Texas Supreme Court recently adopted Rule 4.6 of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure specifically to address situations such as this in which there is a delay between the time the trial court enter s its order denying a motion for forensic DNA testing and the time the movant receives notice of that order. See Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Order Adopting Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 4.6 , Misc. Docket No. 17

- 007 (June 5, 2017); Supreme Cour t of Texas, Order Adopting Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 4.6 , Misc. Docket No. 17

- 9061 (June 13, 2017). Unfortunately for Taylor, that new rule does not take effect until September 1, 2017.