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Date Created: 2023-08-09 07:08:15.583484+00
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Dismissed and Opinion Filed August 1, 2023

                                    S In The
                             Court of Appeals
                      Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                No. 05-23-00526-CV

             FIVE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SIX DOLLARS
                IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY, Appellant
                                 V.
                     THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                On Appeal from the 44th Judicial District Court
                            Dallas County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. DC-20-08743

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
               Before Justices Partida-Kipness, Reichek, and Miskel
                        Opinion by Justice Partida-Kipness
      We questioned our jurisdiction over this appeal because it appeared the

notice of appeal was untimely. When a party does not file a timely post-judgment

motion extending the appellate timetable, a notice of appeal is due thirty days after

the judgment is signed or, with an extension motion, fifteen days after the deadline.

See TEX. R. APP. P. 26.1, 26.3. Without a timely filed notice of appeal, this Court

lacks jurisdiction. See Brashear v. Victoria Gardens of McKinney, L.L.C., 302

S.W.3d 542, 545 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2009, no pet.) (op. on reh’g) (timely filing of

notice of appeal jurisdictional).
      The trial court signed the judgment on October 9, 2020. Because appellant

did not file a timely post-judgment motion extending the appellate timetable, the

notice of appeal was due on November 9, 2020 or, with an extension motion,

November 24, 2020. See TEX. R. APP. P. 4.1(a), 26.1, 26.3. Appellant filed a notice

of appeal on May 24, 2023, more than two years late. Accordingly, we dismiss the

appeal for want of jurisdiction. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a).

                                              /Robbie Partida-Kipness/
                                              ROBBIE PARTIDA-KIPNESS
                                              JUSTICE

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                          Court of Appeals
                   Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                  JUDGMENT

FIVE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED                  On Appeal from the 44th Judicial
SIX DOLLARS IN UNITED                      District Court, Dallas County, Texas
STATES CURRENCY, Appellant                 Trial Court Cause No. DC-20-08743.
                                           Opinion delivered by Justice Partida-
No. 05-23-00526-CV       V.                Kipness. Justices Reichek and Miskel
                                           participating.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

    In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, the appeal is
DISMISSED.

Judgment entered August 1, 2023

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