Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-05-17 08:09:49.13381+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:05.737959
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In the
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                   No. 06-23-00073-CR

       HOLLY MICHELLE MESSICK, Appellant

                            V.

           THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

          On Appeal from the 5th District Court
                 Bowie County, Texas
             Trial Court No. 21F0879-005

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

        Holly Michelle Messick has filed an untimely notice of appeal from the trial court’s

judgment revoking her community supervision and sentencing her to two years’ incarceration for

possession of a controlled substance. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

        Sentence was imposed in this matter on September 19, 2022, and Messick did not file a

motion for new trial. As a result, Messick’s notice of appeal was due on or before October 19,

2022. See TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1). Messick did not file her notice of appeal until March 24,

2023, well past the deadline for filing such notice. Consequently, Messick’s attempt to appeal

her revocation judgment 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 April 17, 2023, we notified Messick that her notice of appeal appeared to

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

Messick twenty days to respond to our letter and to demonstrate how we have jurisdiction over

the appeal notwithstanding the noted defect. Messick did not respond to our letter.

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

of jurisdiction.

                                             Scott E. Stevens
                                             Chief Justice
Date Submitted:       May 15, 2023
Date Decided:         May 16, 2023

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