Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-03-21 06:13:18.15407+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:45:15.475714
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In the
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                   No. 06-24-00022-CR

          SHAUNNA LYNN SHAW, Appellant

                            V.

           THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

          On Appeal from the 71st District Court
                Harrison County, Texas
               Trial Court No. 23-0102X

      Before Stevens, C.J., van Cleef and Rambin, JJ.
       Memorandum Opinion by Justice van Cleef
                               MEMORANDUM OPINION

       Shaunna Lynn Shaw filed an untimely notice of appeal from the trial court’s judgment

convicting her of possession of a controlled substance and sentencing her to sixteen months’

confinement in state jail. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

       The trial court imposed sentence in this matter on January 4, 2024, and Shaw did not file

a motion for new trial. As a result, Shaw’s notice of appeal was due on or before February 5,

2024. See TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1). Shaw did not file her notice of appeal until February 6,

2024, making it one day late. Consequently, Shaw’s attempt to appeal her conviction in this

matter was untimely. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has expressly held that, without a

timely filed notice of appeal, we cannot exercise jurisdiction over an appeal. See Olivo v. State,

918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996); see also Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 209 n.3

(Tex. Crim. App. 1998) (per curiam).

       By letter dated February 8, 2024, we notified Shaw that her notice of appeal appeared to

be untimely and that the appeal was subject to dismissal for want of jurisdiction. We gave Shaw

ten days to respond to our letter and to demonstrate how we had jurisdiction over the appeal

notwithstanding the noted defect. Shaw did not respond to our letter.

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        Because Shaw did not timely file her notice of appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of

jurisdiction.

                                            Charles van Cleef
                                            Justice

Date Submitted:       March 8, 2024
Date Decided:         March 11, 2024

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