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Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed December 9, 2004

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed December 9,
2004.
 
In The
 
Fourteenth Court of Appeals
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NO. 14-04-01070-CR
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FRANCISCO JAVIER GUTIERREZ, Appellant
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
 

 
On Appeal from the
182nd District Court
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 958,485
 

 
M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N
Appellant entered a guilty plea to the offense of aggravated
robbery.  In accordance with the terms of
a plea bargain agreement with the State, the trial court sentenced appellant on
January 13, 2004, to confinement for fifteen years in the Institutional
Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.  No motion for new trial was filed.  Appellant filed a pro se notice of appeal on
October 28, 2004.  Because appellant has
no right to appeal, we dismiss.  

The trial court entered a certification of the defendant=s right to appeal in which the court
certified that this is a plea bargain case, and the defendant has no right of
appeal.  See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2).  The trial court=s certification is included in the
record on appeal.  See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d).
Furthermore, appellant=s notice of appeal was not timely
filed.  A defendant=s notice of appeal must be filed
within thirty days after sentence is imposed when the defendant has not filed a
motion for new trial.  See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1).  A notice of appeal which complies with the
requirements of Rule 26 is essential to vest the court of appeals with
jurisdiction.  Slaton v. State,
981 S.W.2d 208, 210 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998). 
If an appeal is not timely perfected, a court of appeals does not obtain
jurisdiction to address the merits of the appeal.  Under those circumstances it can take no
action other than to dismiss the appeal. 
Id.
Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal.  
 
 
PER CURIAM
 
Judgment rendered and Memorandum
Opinion filed December 9, 2004.
Panel consists of Justices
Anderson, Hudson, and Frost.
Do Not Publish C Tex. R. App.
P. 47.2(b).