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NO. 07-11-0479-CR

                               IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

                        FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                        AT AMARILLO

                                           PANEL C

                                    DECEMBER 12, 2011

                           ______________________________

                         MICHAEL PINA MONTION, APPELLANT

                                               V.

                            THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

                         _________________________________

                FROM THE 64TH DISTRICT COURT OF HALE COUNTY;

               NO. A18655-1012; HONORABLE WALLY HATCH, JUDGE

                           _______________________________

Before QUINN, C.J., and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.

                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Following a conviction for burglary of a habitation,1 on March 3, 2011, Appellant,

Michael Pina Montion, was sentenced to six years confinement, suspended in favor of

community supervision, and assessed a $1,000 fine. The State filed a motion to revoke

community supervision for violations of the terms and conditions thereof. On October

1
Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 30.02(a) (West 2011).
24, 2011, following a hearing, the trial court granted the State's motion, revoked

Appellant's community supervision and imposed the original sentence. Appellant filed a

notice of appeal on November 30, 2011. We dismiss for want of jurisdiction.

        A timely and proper notice of appeal invokes this Court=s jurisdiction. State v.

Riewe, 13 S.W.3d 408, 410 (Tex.Crim.App. 2000). When no motion for new trial is filed,

a notice of appeal must be filed within thirty days after the day sentence is imposed.

Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1). The deadline may be extended if, within fifteen days, the

party files the notice with the trial court clerk and files in this Court a motion for

extension of time in compliance with Rule 10.5(b) of the Texas Rules of Appellate

Procedure.2 See Tex. R. App. P. 26.3. (Emphasis added). This Court has no authority

to invoke Rule 2 of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure to enlarge the time in which

to file the notice of appeal or the motion for extension of time. Tex. R. App. P. 2; Slaton

v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210 (Tex.Crim.App. 1998).

        The judgment reflects that Appellant's sentence was imposed on October 24,

2011. Because no motion for new trial was filed, Appellant's notice of appeal was due

to be filed with the trial court clerk on or before November 23, 2011. Notwithstanding

that the notice of appeal was filed in the trial court on November 30, 2011, within the

fifteen day period provided by Rule 26.3, no motion for extension of time was timely filed

in this Court. Consequently, this Court is without authority to extend the time to file the

2
Unlike in civil cases, the motion for extension of time reasonably explaining the delay cannot be implied.
Cf. Verburgt v. Dorner, 959 S.W.2d 615, 616-17 (Tex. 1997).

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notice of appeal and the untimely notice of appeal prevents this Court from exercising

jurisdiction over this case.3

        Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

                                                        Patrick A. Pirtle
                                                            Justice

3
 Appellant may be entitled to relief by way of an out-of-time appeal by filing a post-conviction writ of
habeas corpus returnable to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 11.07
(West Supp. 2011).

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