Court Opinion

ID: 4298797
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Date Created: 2018-07-28 03:52:49.712318+00
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NUMBER 13-18-00314-CR

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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RICKY HERNANDEZ,                                                           APPELLANT,

                                             v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                               APPELLEE.
____________________________________________________________

             On appeal from the 377th District Court
                   of Victoria County, Texas.
____________________________________________________________

                          MEMORANDUM OPINION
               Before Justices Contreras, Longoria, Hinojosa
                Memorandum Opinion by Justice Hinojosa

       Appellant, Ricky Hernandez, attempted to perfect an appeal from a conviction for

aggravated sexual assault. 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 February 15, 2008. Appellant

filed his notice to file an out-of-time appeal on June 19, 2018. On June 20, 2018, 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 more than ten years 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.

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CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.07, § 3(a) (West, Westlaw through 2017 1st C. S.); see

also Ex parte Garcia, 988 S.W.2d 240 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999).

       The appeal is DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION.

                                                          LETICIA HINOJOSA
                                                          Justice

Do not publish.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

Delivered and filed the
26th day of July, 2018.

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