Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-10-16 02:12:21.473266+00
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In The
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                  No. 06-12-00202-CR

           LYNDON ANDERSON, Appellant

                            V.

              STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

        On Appeal from the 102nd District Court
                 Bowie County, Texas
            Trial Court No. 11-F-0921-102

       Before Morriss, C.J., Carter and Moseley, JJ.
         Memorandum Opinion by Justice Carter
                                MEMORANDUM OPINION
       Lyndon Anderson attempts to appeal his conviction of aggravated robbery. Anderson’s

sentence was imposed October 11, 2012. His motion for new trial was filed November 14, 2012,

and his notice of appeal was filed December 11, 2012.              We received the clerk’s record

February 7, 2013. The issue before us is whether Anderson perfected his appeal. We conclude

that he did not and dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

       A timely notice of appeal is necessary to invoke this Court’s jurisdiction. Olivo v. State,

918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996). Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.2(a)

delineates the time period in which a notice of appeal must be filed by a criminal defendant in

order to perfect an appeal. A criminal defendant’s notice of appeal is timely if filed “within 30

days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court . . . or within 90 days after the

day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court if the defendant timely files a motion for

new trial.” TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a). A motion for new trial is timely if filed “before, but not later

than 30 days after, the date when the trial court imposes or suspends sentence in open court.”

TEX. R. APP. P. 21.4(a).

       Anderson’s sentence was imposed October 11, 2012, and his motion for new trial was

filed November 14, 2012, thirty-four days after the day sentence was imposed. Consequently,

the motion for new trial was not timely filed, and the notice of appeal, to be timely, had to be

filed within thirty days of the day sentence was imposed. See TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a). Because

Anderson’s notice of appeal was not filed until December 11, 2012, sixty-one days after the day

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sentence was imposed, he has failed to perfect his appeal. See id. Accordingly, we dismiss the

appeal for want of jurisdiction.

                                                  Jack Carter
                                                  Justice

Date Submitted:        March 21, 2013
Date Decided:          March 22, 2013

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