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NUMBER 13-10-00024-CR

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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LEYDIANA ZUNIGA,                                                             Appellant,

                                            v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
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             On appeal from the 404th District Court
                  of Cameron County, Texas.
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Rodriguez, Benavides, and Vela
                       Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, Leydiana Zuniga, attempted to perfect an appeal from a conviction for

theft. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

      This Court's appellate jurisdiction in a criminal case is invoked by a timely filed

notice of appeal. Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996). Absent a

timely filed notice of appeal, a court of appeals does not have jurisdiction to address the
merits of the appeal and can take no action other than to dismiss the appeal for want of

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

       The trial court imposed sentence in this matter on September 28, 2009. Appellant

filed her notice of appeal on November 25, 2009. On March 10, 2010, the Clerk of this

Court notified appellant that it appeared that the appeal was not timely perfected and that

the appeal would be dismissed if the defect was not corrected within ten days from the

date of receipt of the Court=s directive. Appellant has not filed a response to the Court=s

directive.

       Unless a motion for new trial has been timely filed, a notice of appeal must be filed

within thirty days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court, or after

the day the trial court enters an appealable order. TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1). Where a

timely motion for new trial has been filed, the notice of appeal must be filed within ninety

days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court. See id. 26.2(a)(2).

The time within which to file the notice may be enlarged if, within fifteen days after the

deadline for filing the notice, the party files the notice of appeal and a motion complying

with Rule 10.5(b) of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. See id. 26.3.

       Appellant=s notice of appeal, filed fifty-eight days after sentence was imposed, was

untimely, and accordingly, we lack jurisdiction over the appeal. See Slaton, 981 S.W.2d

at 210. Appellant may be entitled to an out-of-time appeal by filing a post-conviction writ

of habeas corpus returnable to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; however, the

availability of that remedy is beyond the jurisdiction of this Court. See TEX. CODE CRIM.

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PROC. ANN. art. 11.07, ' 3(a) (Vernon 2005); see also Ex parte Garcia, 988 S.W.2d 240

(Tex. Crim. App. 1999).

      The appeal is DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION.

                                                          PER CURIAM

Do not publish. See TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed the 27th
day of August, 2010.

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