Court Opinion

ID: 9385792
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Date Created: 2023-04-09 08:12:01.95924+00
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Appeal Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed April 4, 2023.

                                        In The

                      Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                                NO. 14-23-00083-CR

                HECTOR DAMIAN GIAGNACOVO, Appellant

                                           V.
                        THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                     On Appeal from the 338th District Court
                             Harris County, Texas
                         Trial Court Cause No. 1525062

                  MEMORANDUM                        OPINION

      This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction signed August 23, 2017. No
timely motion for new trial was filed. Therefore, appellant’s notice of appeal was
due by September 22, 2017. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1).

      A court of appeals may grant an extension of time if, within 15 days after the
deadline for filing the notice of appeal, the party files (a) the notice of appeal in the
trial court, and (b) a motion to extend time in the court of appeals. See Tex. R. App.
P. 26.3; see also Tex. R. App. P. 10.5(b)(2) (governing motion to extend time to file
notice of appeal). The fifteenth day after September 22, 2017, was October 7, 2017,
which was a Saturday, so appellant had until October 9, 2017 to file his notice of
appeal so as to enable it to be timely with a motion to extend time. See Tex. R. App.
P. 4.1(a). Appellant filed his notice of appeal on January 26, 2023.1

       A notice of appeal that complies with the requirements of Texas Rule of
Appellate Procedure 26 is essential to vest the court of appeals with jurisdiction.
Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996). When a notice of
appeal is not filed within the 15-day period, the court of appeals can take no action
other than to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See id.

       On February 23, 2023, the parties were notified that the court may dismiss the
appeal for want of jurisdiction unless appellant demonstrated that the court has
jurisdiction. Appellant’s response does not demonstrate this court has jurisdiction.

       Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

                                     PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Chief Justice Christopher and Justices Spain and Poissant.

Do Not Publish — Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b).

       1
         The record does not reflect that there have otherwise been any appealable orders or
judgments from which an appeal has been timely taken, or which properly could be made timely
through a motion to extend time.

                                             2