Court Opinion

ID: 4530654
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2020-05-01 08:14:48.274065+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:25:08.762274
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                     NO. 03-20-00155-CR

                                 Ryan M. Carranza, Appellant

                                                v.

                                  The State of Texas, Appellee

                FROM THE 274TH DISTRICT COURT OF HAYS COUNTY
         NO. CR-06-513-C, THE HONORABLE GARY L. STEEL, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               Appellant Ryan M. Carranza has filed a notice of appeal from a judgment

revoking community supervision for the offense of assault of a public servant. See Tex. Penal

Code § 22.01. This Court’s appellate jurisdiction in a criminal case is invoked by a timely filed

notice of appeal. See Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996). Rule 26.2 of

the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure provides that an appeal is perfected in a criminal case

when a notice of appeal is filed within thirty days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended

in open court or within ninety days after sentencing, if the defendant timely files a motion for

new trial. Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1)-(2).

               In this case, the trial court imposed sentence on November 18, 2019, and Carranza

timely filed a motion for new trial on December 17, 2019. See R. 21.4(a) (motion for new trial

must be filed no later than thirty days after date trial court imposes or suspends sentence in open
court). Consequently, Carranza’s deadline to file his notice of appeal was February 18, 2020,

and Carranza filed his notice of appeal on February 21, 2020.

                Absent a timely filed notice of appeal, we lack jurisdiction to dispose of this

appeal in any manner other than dismissing it for want of jurisdiction. See Castillo v. State,

369 S.W.3d 196, 198 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012). Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want

of jurisdiction.1

                                             __________________________________________
                                             Chari L. Kelly, Justice

Before Justices Goodwin, Kelly, and Smith

Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction

Filed: April 30, 2020

Do Not Publish

        1
          The remedy for a late-filed notice of appeal is to file a post-conviction writ of habeas
corpus returnable to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for consideration of an out-of-time
appeal. See Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 11.07.
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